under SDCL 19-16-6, which provides: A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition, is not excluded by § 19-16-4, even though the declarant is available as a witness. The statement admitted as an excited utterance was made by Tania to Janine Rat-hert, the assistant sales manager at Haar Motors in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where Tania bought her car in October 1999. Tania had called, “frantic ... bawling, screaming, and hollering,” to see if the dealership had cashed her check yet. “She said her husband was going to kill her because she had spent some money.” The court concluded that this statement was “admissible as an excited utterance because it was made in response 759-63 (N.C.1998) (<HOLDING>); State v. Richards, 552 N.W.2d 197, 209
holding husband could not have marriage annulled because wife was pregnant by him at time of marriage holding evidence spanning entire marriage admissible to show death was not accidental recognizing that basis for deportation was aliens misrepresentation about his marriage not the validity of his marriage holding statements admissible to rebut defendants claims of selfdefense suicide or accidental death holding parol evidence is admissible to show mistake