2021 Georgia Code
Title 31 - Health
Chapter 21 - Dead Bodies
Article 3 - Offenses
§ 31-21-43. Removal of Dead Body From Grave for Purposes of Sale or Dissection
Any person who shall remove a dead human body from any grave or other place of interment or from any vault, tomb, sepulcher, or from any other place for the purpose of selling or dissecting the same and any person who shall receive or purchase any dead human body knowing it to have been so disinterred or removed for the purpose aforesaid shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.
(Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 818; Code 1863, § 4438; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, §§ 1, 2; Code 1868, § 4479; Code 1873, § 4563; Code 1882, § 4563; Ga. L. 1887, p. 87, § 7; Penal Code 1895, § 415; Penal Code 1910, § 408; Code 1933, § 88-9919; Code 1933, § 88-2710, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1434, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 22A Am. Jur. 2d, Dead Bodies, §§ 50, 74, 75, 78.
ALR.
- Constitutionality of statute or ordinance requiring, or permitting, removal of bodies from cemeteries, 71 A.L.R. 1040.
Constitutionality, construction, and application of criminal statutes specifically denouncing offenses affecting cemeteries, burial lots, tombstones, and the like, 132 A.L.R. 557.
Removal and reinterment of remains, 21 A.L.R.2d 472.
Construction and application of graverobbing statutes, 52 A.L.R.3d 701.
Validity, construction, and application of statutes making it a criminal offense to mistreat or wrongfully dispose of dead body, 81 A.L.R.3d 1071.
