2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 9 - Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice.
97-9-113 - Intimidating a witness.
§ 97-9-113. Intimidating a witness.
(1) A person commits the crime of intimidating a witness if he intentionally or knowingly attempts, by use of a threat directed to a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceedings, to:
(a) Influence the testimony of that person;
(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.
(2) Intimidating a witness is a Class 1 felony.
Sources: Laws, 2006, ch. 387, § 7, eff from and after July 1, 2006.
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