97-9-115 - Tampering with a witness. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-9-115. Tampering with a witness.
 

(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. 
 

Sources: Laws, 2006, ch. 387, § 8, eff from and after July 1, 2006.