97-9-113 - Intimidating a witness. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 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.