{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-113","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-113","heading":"Intimidating a witness.","body":"(1) A person commits the crime of intimidating a witness if he intentionally or knowingly:\n(a) 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:\n(i) Influence the testimony of that person;\n(ii) Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or\n(iii) Induce that person to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned;\n(b) Harasses or intimidates or attempts to threaten, harass or intimidate a witness or a person reasonably expected to be a witness;\n(c) Attempts to influence the testimony of a witness or a person reasonably expected to be a witness by rendering criminal assistance to another being investigated for or charged with criminal activity; or\n(d) Solicits, encourages or requests a witness to provide false information intended to defeat or defend against an existing criminal charge or to hinder or interfere an ongoing investigation of a criminal act.\n(2) Intimidating a witness is a Class 1 felony.\n(3) It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section if the actual completion of the threat, harassment or intimidation was prevented from occurring.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 9. Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice","Article 3. Obstruction of Justice."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.97.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:07Z","sha256":"ae220a6d5e2877c0cfffbc9b4c0c388cf8949e7e435393b37869d4114582eb64","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-111","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-115","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}