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34-47-3-3. Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witnesses

IN Code § 34-47-3-3 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 3. 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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