22-16-1Homicide defined.

Homicide is the killing of one human being, including an unborn child, by another. Homicide is either:

(1)    Murder;

(2)    Manslaughter;

(3)    Excusable homicide;

(4)    Justifiable homicide; or

(5)    Vehicular homicide.

Source: SDC 1939, § 13.2001; SL 1985, ch 176; SL 1995, ch 122, § 10; SL 2005, ch 120, § 150.