What is a medical examiners case?
Mississippi Statutes require that any DEATH AFFECTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST be reported to the Medical Examiner of the County in which the death occured. In all such cases any person who willfully moves, disturbs, conceals, embalms, buries or cremates a body or part of a body of a decedent may be charged with a misdemeanor and may be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars($500.00) and/or by imprisonment for not more than six(6) months in the county jail. Reportable cases is defined in the State Statute under 41-61-59 and disposition of body without permission of Medical Examiner can be found in the State Statute under 41-61-69.
