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.).