Bribing a witness

1. Law
2. Mississippi Code
3. Crimes
4. Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice
5. Obstruction of Justice
6. Bribing a witness

1. A person commits the crime of bribing a witness if he intentionally or knowingly offers, confers or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceeding with intent to:
   1. Influence the testimony of that person;
   2. Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or
   3. Induce that person to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.
2. Bribing a witness is a Class 1 felony.

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