617.22 CONCEALING BIRTH.
Every person who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of a child by any disposition of its
dead body, whether the child died before or after its birth, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every
person who, having been convicted of endeavoring to conceal the stillbirth of any issue, or the
death of any issue under the age of two years, shall, subsequent to that conviction, endeavor to
conceal any subsequent birth or death, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than
five years.
History: (10179) RL s 4946; 1917 c 231 s 1; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 c 7 s 16