34-27-20Receiving dead body unlawfully removed as misdemeanor.

Every person who purchases or receives, except for the purpose of burial, any dead body of a human being, knowing that the same has been removed contrary to § 34-27-19, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Source: PenC 1877, § 359; CL 1887, § 6560; RPenC 1903, § 364; RC 1919, § 3878; SDC 1939, § 13.1419; SL 1977, ch 190, § 75.