(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.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5015.)