State v. Escalante

WUEST, Chief Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal of the convictions of three defendants as DWI1 habitual offenders. We affirm.

FACTS

Each of the defendants was convicted of DWI and each had prior DWI convictions in his record. Accordingly, state sought to enhance the punishment for each defendant’s most recent DWI by alleging his prior convictions in a Part II information filed under SDCL 32-23-4.2.2 Following trial on the Part II information, each of the defendants was convicted as an habitual DWI offender. Jose Escalante and Michael Larsen were both convicted of felony third offense DWI…