97-29-21 - Dead bodies; buying or receiving.
§ 97-29-21. Dead bodies; buying or receiving.
Every person who shall purchase or receive the dead body of any human being, knowing the same to have been disinterred contrary to Section 97-29-19, shall, on conviction, be subjected to the punishment therein prescribed.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(11); 1857, ch. 64, art. 67; 1871, § 2716; 1880, § 2765; 1892, § 1024; 1906, § 1101; Hemingway's 1917, § 827; 1930, § 851; 1942, § 2077.