Robbery, if accomplished by the use of a dangerous weapon, or by the use of a physical object simulating a dangerous weapon, is robbery in the first degree. Robbery, if accomplished in any other manner, is robbery in the second degree.

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Source: SDC 1939, § 13.2603; SL 2005, ch 120, § 28; SL 2007, ch 146, § 1.