South Dakota Magistrate Courts

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The Magistrate Courts are courts in South Dakota that handle minor criminal offenses and less serious civil courts than the Circuit Courts.

Court division

District Counties served First Judicial Circuit Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner, Union and Yankton Counties Second Judicial Circuit Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties Third Judicial Circuit Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody, and Sanborn Counties Fourth Judicial Circuit Butte, Dewey, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins, and Ziebach Counties Fifth Judicial Circuit Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink, and Walworth Counties Sixth Judicial Circuit Bennett, Gregory, Haakon, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Todd, and Tripp Counties Seventh Judicial Circuit Custer, Fall River, Pennington, and Shannon Counties External links South Dakota Court Overview