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S.C. Code Ann. § 17-7-70: Jurisdiction of coroners to take inquests.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
- CHAPTER 7 Autopsies and Inquest on the Dead
- ARTICLE 1 Autopsies, Preliminary Examinations, and Inquests
Subject to the provisions of SECTIONS 17-7-20 to 17-7-40 every coroner, within the county for which he has been elected or appointed, may take inquest of casual or violent deaths when the dead body is lying within his county. Provided, however, if a person is injured in one county but removed to another county for medical purposes, the coroner of the county where the injury occurred shall have jurisdiction.
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