South Dakota Statutes

§ 34-27-18 — Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin as misdemeanor.

South Dakota·Title 34 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY·Ch. 34-27 CEMETERIES AND BURIAL RECORDS

Every person who opens any grave or any place of burial, temporary or otherwise, or who breaks open any building wherein any dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent either:

(1)To remove any dead body of a human being for the purpose of selling the same or for the purpose of dissection; or (2) To steal the coffin, or any part thereof, or anything attached thereto or connected therewith, or the vestments or other articles buried with the same; is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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Legislative History

PenC 1877, § 360; CL 1887, § 6561; RPenC 1903, § 365; RC 1919, § 3879; SDC 1939, § 13.1422; SL 1977, ch 190, § 73.

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