23A-32-19. Disposition of case directed by Supreme Court.The Supreme Court by its judgment may reverse, affirm, or modify the judgment or order appealed from, and may direct a new trial, or when the appeal is from a judgment and the defendant assigns as error a ruling of the court denying a motion for a judgment of acquittal and the court determines that such motion should have been granted, the court may order that such judgment of acquittal be entered. Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §34.4109; SDCL, §23-51-20; SL 1978, ch 178, §397.
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