Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
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Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1
Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons; Toxicology
Public officers and their assistants, and their deputies of every
county, city, town, or other municipality, or of every prison, chain
gang, penitentiary, county morgue, public hospital, having control
of dead body to be buried at public expense (not dying of infectious
disease) shall deliver same to medical college for dissection, etc.,
unless claimed by friends or relatives or such friends or relatives
request same to be buried, or unless deceased was a stranger or
traveller (Laws, 1887, vol. 2, p. 77).
Removal of body from grave, etc., unlawfully for dissection or sale is
felony, or receiving or purchasing it knowing it to have been so taken,
or trafficking in dead bodies, or having them conveyed without the
State for sale, etc., is a felony (Laws, 1882, vol. 2, p. 87).
IDAHO.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc., and may exhume it for that purpose (R.
L., sec. 8,377).
Coroner to bury body decently when not claimed by relatives, etc., and
if necessary, at expense of county (R. L., sec. 2,081).
ILLINOIS.
Removal of body unlawfully or aiding in such removal is punishable as a
felony—one to ten years (S. & C. Am. Stat., vol. 1, p. 794).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (S. & C. Am. Stat., vol. 1, p. 606).
And to deliver body to friends or bury decently if no friends claim it,
if necessary at county expense (S. & C. Am. Stat., vol. 1, p. 606).
Body of executed criminals may be delivered to any physician or surgeon
for dissection unless friends object (S. & C. Am. Stat., vol. 1, p.
869; Crim. Code, sec. 503).
In cities and counties where population exceeds one hundred thousand,
superintendents of penitentiaries, wardens of poor-houses, coroner,
city undertaker, having body required to be buried at public expense,
may deliver remains to medical college or any physician or surgeon for
dissection, unless claimed by relatives (S. & C. Am. Stat., vol. 3, p.
867).
INDIANA.
Removal of dead body or part of same unlawfully is a felony (R. L.,
sec. 2,165).
Concealment of body or part thereof, which has been unlawfully used for
dissection, is a felony (R. L., sec. 2,167).
Receiving or buying a body knowing it to have been unlawfully
disinterred is a felony (R. L., sec. 2,168).
Dead body of one dying in a State, city, or county prison or jail,
or county asylum or infirmary or public hospital, or dead body of an
executed criminal, or dead body of a vagrant, or one killed while
committing a felony or escaping from prison or officers, may be
delivered to the faculty of a medical college in State for dissection,
etc., unless deceased requested to be buried or body is claimed by next
of kin (R. L., sec. 4,258 _et seq._).
Dissecting or possessing body for dissection except as prescribed by
law is a felony (R. L., sec. 4,271).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (R. L, secs., 5,878, 5,879).
IOWA.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 487).
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