Legal Opinion
State v. Watson
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 1976No. 12067PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Justice.
Defendant was charged with the offense of rape. Defendant’s motion for an order that he and the victim of the alleged offense be given polygraph examinations and that the results of the examinations be admissible at trial was granted by the trial court. We granted the state permission to appeal from this intermediate order pursuant to SDCL 23-51-5. We reverse.
In State v. O’Connor, 86 S.D. 294, 194 N.W.2d 246, we held that the trial court had not erred in refusing to order a polygraph examination, this in accordance with the general rule that polygraph examination results are…
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3Cited by24 opinions
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