Court Opinion

ID: 9662464
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:09:45.79147+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:39.708994
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Justice
(concurring specially).
I agree that the judgment denying post-conviction relief should be affirmed.
*149I also agree that knowledge is an element of SDCL 32-34-3 and 32-34-5. This court implied as much in State v. Tarbell, 64 S.D. 330, 266 N.W. 677. See especially Judge Campbell's special concurrence, 64 S.D. at 338, 266 N.W. at 681.
I would not reach the question of the sufficiency of the evidence. A post-conviction proceeding is not a substitute for the remedy of direct review of a criminal conviction. State v. Roth, 84 S.D. 44, 166 N.W.2d 564.
Although I do not reach the question of the sufficiency of the evidence, I agree generally with the statements in the majority opinion regarding the state’s burden of proof in establishing the fact of knowledge under SDCL 32-34-3 and 32-34-5. To me at least, the court’s decision today lays to rest the tortured use of the circumstantial evidence rule that resulted in the reversal of the conviction in State v. Tarbell, supra.