Arrest or attachment of dead body for any debt or demand is a misdemeanor (Pen. Code, sec. 295).
One who disinters or exhumes a body without permit of board of health, health officer, or mayor, or transports such exhumed remains through streets of town, city, etc., except in a sealed coffin, guilty of a misdemeanor (Laws, 1878, ch. 673).
A sheriff, coroner, or keeper of county poor-house, public hospital, county jail, or State prison, etc., must surrender bodies of those who are to be buried at public expense, to any physician or surgeon for dissection, etc., unless deceased during his last sickness requested to be buried or body is claimed by relatives, etc., or deceased was a stranger or traveller, died suddenly (Pen. Code, sec. 3,094).
Coroner to bury body when no other person takes charge of same (Pen. Code, sec. 4,286).
Coroner to hold inquest, direct autopsy, and may exhume (Pen. Code, see. 1,510).
Colorado.
Concealment of death of issue which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is punishable (Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,195).
Body of criminal executed for capital offence shall be delivered to a physician or surgeon unless claimed by relative or friend (Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,204).
Board of health, mayor, etc., or officer, etc., having control of any alms-house, prison, hospital, jail, etc., shall surrender bodies to be buried at public expense to any physician or surgeon for dissection, etc., unless deceased during last illness requested to be buried, or body is claimed by relatives or friends, or deceased was a stranger or traveller who died unknown (Mill’s Stat., secs. 1,547, 1,548).