South Dakota Code § 34-27-18

Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin as misdemeanor
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Every person who opens any grave or any place of burial, temporary or otherwise, or who breaks open any building wherein any dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent either:
(1) To remove any dead body of a human being for the purpose of selling the same or for the purpose of dissection; or
(2) To steal the coffin, or any part thereof, or anything attached thereto or connected therewith, or the vestments or other articles buried with the same;
is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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