(a) A person commits the crime of bribing a witness if he offers, confers or agrees to confer any thing of value upon a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceeding with intent 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) This section does not apply to the payment of additional compensation to an expert witness over and above the amount otherwise prescribed by law to be paid a witness.
- (c) Bribing a witness is a Class C felony.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5005; Acts 1979, No. 79-471, p. 862, §1.)