A person commits the offense of subornation of perjury or false swearing when he procures or induces another to commit the offense of perjury or the offense of false swearing and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years, or both.
History. Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 804; Code 1863, §§ 4359, 4360; Code 1868, §§ 4397, 4398; Code 1873, §§ 4464, 4465; Code 1882, §§ 4464, 4465; Penal Code 1895, §§ 260, 261; Penal Code 1910, §§ 263, 264; Code 1933, §§ 26-4005, 26-4006; Code 1933, § 26-2403, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.