Mo. Rev. Stat. § 58.180
Current with changes from the 2023 Legislative Session
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.
§ 58.180, RSMo
RSMo 1939 § 13227, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.