Section 23-14-14 - Coroner's warrant equal to magistrate's warrant--Proceedings as on complaint. - South Dakota Statutes

23-14-14. Coroner's warrant equal to magistrate's warrant--Proceedings as on complaint. The warrant of a coroner in such case shall be of equal authority with that of a committing magistrate, and when the person charged is brought before the committing magistrate the same proceedings shall be had as in other cases started by a complaint, and he shall be dealt with in the usual form of criminal cases.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.1013; SL 1978, ch 171, § 8.