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STATE v. WATTS

No. 10804.

188 N.W.2d 913 (1971)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Christie M. WATTS, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Rehearing Denied August 31, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Srstka, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, argued case for plaintiff-respondent, Gordon Mydland, Atty. Gen., Pierre, and LeRoy Hill, State's Atty., Butte County, Belle Fourche, were on the brief.

Wm. E. Anderson, Belle Fourche, for defendant-appellant.

RENTTO, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Christie M. Watts, shot and killed his stepson, Ira Edlin, on September 29, 1968. The decedent was then about 39 years of age and the defendant 64. He admits firing the fatal shot, but claims that he did so in self-defense.

The information on which he was prosecuted charged him with having committed the crime of murder, but the jury found him guilty of the included offense of manslaughter in the first degree. He was...

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