§ 34-47-2-3 Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witness

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34-47-2-3 Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witness

    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 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.