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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 9 - OFFENSES AFFECTING ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Article 3 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
§ 97-9-115 - Tampering with a witness

MS Code § 97-9-115 (2015) What's This?

(1) A person commits the crime of tampering with a witness if he intentionally or knowingly attempts to induce a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceeding to:

(a) Testify falsely or unlawfully withhold testimony; or

(b) Absent himself from any official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.

(2) Tampering with a witness is a Class 2 felony.

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