Ark. Code Ann. § 5-53-108

Witness bribery

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Windsor v. State (1999)

Most recently applied in Paschal v. State (March 2012)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2608; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2608; 2019, No. 1017, § 1.

(1) A person commits witness bribery if he or she: Offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit upon a witness or a person he or she believes may be called as a witness with the purpose of: Influencing the testimony of that person;

(2) Inducing that person to avoid legal process summoning that person to testify; or

(3) Inducing that person to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding to which that person has been legally summoned; or

(4) Solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit and the conferring of the benefit is prohibited by this section.

(5) Witness bribery is a Class B felony.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.