2014 Arkansas Code
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 5 - Offenses Against The Administration Of Government
Chapter 53 - Offenses Relating to Judicial and Other Official Proceedings
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 5-53-109 - Intimidating a witness.

AR Code § 5-53-109 (2014) What's This?

(a) A person commits the offense of intimidating a witness if he or she threatens a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of:

(1) Influencing the testimony of that person;

(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or

(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned.

(b) Intimidating a witness is a Class C felony.

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