Section 13A-10-123 - Intimidating a witness(a) A person commits the crime of intimidating a witness if he attempts, by use of a threat directed to a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceedings, to:(1) Corruptly 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.(b) "Threat," as used in this section, means any threat proscribed by Section 13A-6-25 on criminal coercion.(c) Intimidating a witness is a Class C felony.Ala. Code § 13A-10-123 (1975)
Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5015.