SDCL § 23A-11-1: (Rule 13) Joinder for trial of indictments, informations, or defendants.

A court may order two or more indictments or informations, or both, to be tried together if the offenses, and the defendants, if there is more than one, could have been joined in a single indictment or information. The procedure shall be the same as if the prosecution were under a single indictment or information.

Source: Supreme Court Rule 395, 1939; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.3625; SDCL, § 23-42-4; SL 1978, ch 178, § 129.