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2018 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 524 - INTERFERENCE WITH JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
.020 Bribing a witness.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 524.020 (2018)
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524.020 Bribing a witness. (1) (2) A person is guilty of bribing a witness when he offers, confers or agrees to confer any pecuniary benefit upon a witness or a person he believes may be called as a witness in any official proceeding with intent to: (a) Influence the testimony of that person; or (b) Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or (c) Induce that person to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned. Bribing a witness is a Class D felony. Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 201, effective January 1, 1975.
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