Hello List: This MS Code §46-2-105 (see below) appears to me to prohibit any person from conducting recreational activities in a cemetery and note that the violation carries a Class E Felony. There is no stipulation in the Code as to the location of the cemetery (private property, public, or even abandoned). Since the Brasfield Cemetery (Whitfield graves) has been established as a cemetery in (1) Ann Brown's publication Jefferson County Cemeteries Vol. I and (2) Jefferson County Court case #47/136-2 (State of Mississippi vs. Gregory Reed) there should not be any question about the official designation of this area as a cemetery. The point here is that if Dr. Reed does in fact proceed with his plans for a basket ball court at that site this is a MS code that could be used to bring new charges against him. It appears to me that this would have been the code which should have been used initially. I have done a lot of searching and have not found any firm Federal Laws or Regulations which appears to pertain to the desecration of a cemetery including general disturbance of Native American mounds and burial sites. Please post it if you can find anything. I did find a case where the McCombs Cemetery in Denton County, Texas was bulldozed in a similar fashion. I am attempting to contact one of the involved persons who has information about their trials and tribulations in getting resolution through the Texas Court System. But I realize that is Texas not MS. Lloyd Mullins MS Code §46-2-105. Trespass or injury to cemetery property - Interference with processions or religious exercises - Penalty (a) No person shall willfully destroy, deface, or injure any monument, tomb, gravestone, or other structure placed in the cemetery, or any roadway, walk, fence or enclosure in or around the same, or injure any tree, plant or shrub therein, or hunt or shoot therein, play at any game or amusement therein, or loiter for lascivious or lewd purposes therein, or interfere, by words or actions, with any funeral procession or any religious exercises. (b) (1) A violation of this section is a Class E felony (2) Following conviction of a person for violating subsection (a), evidence of damages sustained as a result of such violation shall be presented to the jury which shall ascertain the total amount thereof. The court shall then render judgment in such amount against the offender in favor of the cemetery and/or the other aggrieved parties and shall order the offender to make full restitution for such damages. Execution of such judgment shall issue as in other civil cases. Such order of restitution shall be in addition to other sanctions imposed pursuant to subdivision (b)(1). Source [Acts 1875, ch. 142, § 9; Shan., § 2182; Code 1932, § 3920; Acts 1968, ch. 557, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-118; Acts 1976, ch. 708, § 2; T.C.A., §§ 46-218, 46-2-118; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 40; 1995, ch. 134, § 1.]