Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-21: Dead bodies; buying or receiving.

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Title 97. Crimes
Chapter 29. Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency
In General

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.

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