Interment of body unless claimed by relative.

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23A-27A-39. Interment of body unless claimed by relative.

After the postmortem examination and any autopsy, the body of the defendant, unless claimed by some relative, shall be interred in a cemetery within the county where the penitentiary is situated.

Source: SL 1939, ch 135, §13; SL 1939, ch 136; SDC Supp 1960, §34.37A13; SDCL §23-49-27; SL 1979, ch 160, §41; SL 2007, ch 152, §3; SL 2008, ch 117, §37.


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