Section 22-12-10 - Arrest or seizure of property without process--Misdemeanor. - South Dakota Statutes

22-12-10. Arrest or seizure of property without process--Misdemeanor. Any public officer or person pretending to be a public officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, arrests any person, or detains any person against that person's will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses any person of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1233; SL 1976, ch 158, § 12-5; SL 2005, ch 120, § 238.