Section 34-47-2-3 - Assaulting, influencing, or intimidating witnesses 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.
As added by P.L. 1-1998, SEC.43.