Order to take up buried body on suspicion of violent death; examination

S.C. Code Ann. § 17-7-520, under Title 17, Chapter 7.

S.C. Code Ann. § 17-7-520

If the coroner shall know or be informed of the interment of a body of a person supposed to have come to a violent death he shall proceed to empanel a jury, as is directed in Article 1 of this chapter, and order such body to be taken up and shall conduct his examination into the cause and manner of the death as though such body had not been buried.