Bodies of those dying in alms-house, prison, morgue, hospital, jail, or other public institution, which are required to be buried at public expense, and bodies of criminals executed for crime shall be delivered to medical college, etc., and physician or surgeon for anatomical study, unless (except criminals) relatives and friends claim the body or deceased was a stranger or traveller; and such bodies shall not be sent out of the State (Code, ch. 80).
Washington.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Hill’s Am. Stat., vol. 1, sec. 245 et seq.).
And bury body, if not claimed by friends, at public expense (Hill’s Am. Stat., vol. 1, sec. 257).
Bodies of those dying in poor-house, public hospital, county jail, State prison, etc., which are required to be buried at public expense, shall be delivered to medical college, physician, surgeon, etc., for study, unless deceased requested to be buried, or it is claimed by friends or relatives, or deceased was a stranger or traveller; and such body shall be used only in the State (Hill’s Am. Stat., vol. 1, sec. 2,428 et seq.).
Removal, etc., of body from the grave without authority is punishable (Pen. Code, sec. 208).
West Virginia.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Code, ch. 154).
And bury the body at public expense, or if of a stranger, may forward it to its destination or bury it (Code, ch. 154, sec. 8).
Removal, etc., of a body from grave is punishable (Code, ch. 149, sec. 13).