A person:(1) who:(A) offers, gives, or promises any reward to;(B) threatens to assault or injure;(C) assaults or beats; or(D) in any other manner influences, intimidates, or attempts to influence;any witness to give or abstain from giving testimony in any case, or to abstain from attending as a witness in any case;(2) who does any act to put a witness in fear, on account of any testimony that the witness may have given; or(3) who, on account of any testimony, injures or threatens to injure a witness;is guilty of an indirect contempt of the court in which such witness may be called to testify, if the acts are done elsewhere, out of the presence of the court.[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-4-7-4 part.]As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.43.
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