Case Name: STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Harold G. REDERTH, Defendant and Appellant
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1985-11-13
Citations: 376 N.W.2d 579
Docket Number: No. 14787
Parties: STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Harold G. REDERTH, Defendant and Appellant.
Judges: MORGAN, Justice, HERTZ, Acting Justice, and DUNN, Retired Justice, concur.
Reporter: North Western Reporter 2d
Volume: 376
Pages: 579–581

Head Matter:
STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Harold G. REDERTH, Defendant and Appellant.
No. 14787.
Supreme Court of South Dakota.
Considered on Briefs Sept. 12, 1985.
Decided Nov. 13, 1985.
Clair B. Ledbetter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre (Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief), for plaintiff and appellee.
Richard Hopewell, of Hopewell & Schmidt, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
FOSHEIM, Chief Justice.
Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, Rederth pled guilty to charges of D.W.I., second offense and D.W.I., third offense. Following a presentence report, he was sentenced on the second offense to 120 days in the county jail. The sentence on the third offense, essentially provided:
(1) That Defendant's driver's license be suspended for ten years, and,
(2) That Defendant serve 18 months in the South Dakota State Penitentiary with time spent in the Moody County Jail having been considered in determining the term of such sentence. We affirm.
Rederth claims the prison sentence is out of proportion to the nature of the charge. The only supporting authority cited is Robinson v. State of California, 370 U.S. 660, 82 S.Ct. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d 758 (1962). In that case, the Court held that punishment was out of proportion to the offense charged because the defendant was sentenced as a "status" offender for being a "narcotic addict" without defining any act or behavior constituting a crime under California law and punishable by incarceration. In this case, Rederth is neither charged with, nor punished for, the status or condition of being an alcoholic, but rather for the act of driving or being in control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.
The sentence imposed was within statutory limits. SDCL 32-23-3, -4, and SDCL 22-6-1, -2. Rederth does not claim that the sentence fails to meet any proportionality criteria set forth in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983). See also State v. Weiker, 366 N.W.2d 823 (S.D.1985).
Rederth, however, requests this court to take judicial notice of the fact that Native American misdemeanants are charged, convicted and sentenced to serve time in the South Dakota State Penitentiary as felons under SDCL 32-23-4 in discriminately higher numbers than white misdemeanants similarly charged for three or more D.W.I. offenses. He contends that a higher percentage of white D.W.I. offenders, in comparison to Native American D.W.I. offenders, maintain their status as misdemean-ants and avoid application of SDCL 32-23-4 and resultant prison sentences.
Appeals are decided entirely on the record received from the trial court. This court cannot take new evidence on appeal, SDCL 15-26A-47, or take judicial notice of facts subject to reasonable dispute. SDCL 19-10-2. While we can take judicial notice of facts generally known or capable of accurate and ready explanation by sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned, see, e.g., Gravning v. Zellmer, 291 N.W.2d 751 (S.D.1980), Re-derth's sentence does not meet this criteria. See SDCL 19-10-2.
Rederth claims the sentencing court failed to credit him for time already served in jail. The record reveals otherwise. In pronouncing sentence, the court stated that the time Rederth had been in the county jail was considered in determining the term of the penitentiary sentence. This complies with the requirements expressed in State v. Graycek, 335 N.W.2d 572, 574 (S.D.1983), to the effect that in non-life prison sentences, credit must be given for all presen-tence custody resulting from indigency. In Graycek, we held that a similar pronouncement adequately took full cognizance of Graycek's presentence incarceration. Id. at 574-75.
Appellant seems to urge an additional claim regarding the suspension of his driver's license. However, we experience difficulty identifying what is claimed. We must accordingly dismiss this contention as being without merit.
The conviction is affirmed.
MORGAN, Justice, HERTZ, Acting Justice, and DUNN, Retired Justice, concur.
HENDERSON, Justice, concurs in result.
HERTZ, Circuit Court Judge, Acting as a Supreme Court Justice, participated.
DUNN, Retired Justice, sitting for WUEST, Circuit Court Judge, Acting as a Supreme Court Justice, disqualified.