Every person who shall, by the offer of any valuable consideration, attempt, unlawfully and corruptly, to procure any other person to commit wilful and corrupt perjury as a witness in any cause, matter, or proceeding in or concerning which such other person might by law be examined as a witness, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-65
Perjury; bribery to procure
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 174 So. 3d 1279 - Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company v. Luther W. McLain (2015)
Most recently applied in 174 So. 3d 1279 - Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company v. Luther W. McLain (July 2015)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 5(8); 1857, ch. 64, art. 210; 1871, § 2663; 1880, § 2927; 1892, § 1246; 1906, § 1321; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1954; 1930, § 1085; 19…
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