A person:

1. (1) who:

   1. (A) offers, gives, or promises any reward to;
   2. (B) threatens to assault or injure;
   3. (C) assaults or beats; or

   4. (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. (2) who does any act to put a witness in fear, on account of any testimony that the witness may have given; or

3. (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.