§ 34-47-2-3 — Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witnesses

Indiana § 34-47-2-3

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 34: CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE
• Art. 47: CONTEMPT OF COURT
• Ch. 2: Direct Contempt of Court

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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 a direct contempt of the court in which the witness may be
called to testify, if the acts are done in the presence of the court.
[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-4-7-4 part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.43.