MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 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, Sec. 2716; 1880, Sec. 2765; 1892, Sec. 1024; 1906, Sec. 1101; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 827; 1930, Sec. 851; 1942, Sec. 2077.


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