New York Statutes
§ 4218 — Opening graves
§ 4218. Opening graves. A person who opens a grave or other place of\ninterment, temporary or otherwise, or a building wherein the dead body\nof a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, without authority\nof law, with intent to remove the body, or any tissue, organ or part\nthereof, for the purpose of selling it or demanding money for the same,\nor for the purpose of dissection, or from malice or wantonness, or with\nintent to steal or remove the coffin or any part thereof, or anything\nattached thereto, or any vestment, or other article interred, or\nintended to be interred with the dead body, is guilty of a class D\nfelony.\n
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122 A.D.2d 69 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1986)
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