97-29-23 - Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-29-23. Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes.
 

Every person who shall open a grave or other place of interment with intent to move the dead body of any human being for the purpose of selling the same, or for the purpose of dissection, or to steal the coffin or any part thereof, or the vestments or other articles interred with the dead body, or any of them, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, or in the county jail not more than six months, or by fine of not more than three hundred dollars or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(12); 1857, ch. 64, art. 68; 1871, § 2717; 1880, § 2766; 1892, § 1025; 1906, § 1102; Hemingway's 1917, § 828; 1930, § 852; 1942, § 2078.