Section 31-21-43. Removal of dead body from grave for purposes of sale or dissection

   Any person who shall remove a dead human body from any grave or other place of interment or from any vault, tomb, sepulcher, or from any other place for the purpose of selling or dissecting the same and any person who shall receive or purchase any dead human body knowing it to have been so disinterred or removed for the purpose aforesaid shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.

Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 818; Code 1863, § 4438; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, §§ 1, 2; Code 1868, § 4479; Code 1873, § 4563; Code 1882, § 4563; Ga. L. 1887, p. 87, § 7; Penal Code 1895, § 415; Penal Code 1910, § 408; Code 1933, § 88-9919; Code 1933, § 88-2710, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1434, § 1.