State v. Hintz

MORGAN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by verdict of a Lawrence County jury of one count of grand theft, SDCL 22-30A-17, and one count of third-degree burglary, SDCL 22-32-8. Judgment of conviction was entered and this appeal followed. Unequivocally admitting all the facts of the crime, appellant contends that his confession used at trial was involuntary and, therefore, not admissible and that the State’s delay in taking him before a magistrate for arraignment denied him his statutory and constitutional rights. We affirm.

After consuming four to five beers, appellant left a Deadwood bar in…