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 |
