58.180. To be conservator of the peace. — A coroner shall be a conservator of the peace throughout his county, and shall take inquests of violent and casual deaths happening in the same, or where the body of any person coming to his death shall be discovered in his county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13227, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11608; 1919 § 5916; 1909 § 2921