Every person who shall unlawfully or corruptly procure any witness, by any means whatever, to commit wilful and corrupt perjury in any case, matter, or proceedings, in or concerning which such witness shall be legally sworn and examined, shall be guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall not thereafter be received as a witness to be sworn in any matter or cause whatever, until the judgment against him be reversed, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 9 - Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice
§ 97-9-3. Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc.
§ 97-9-5. Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished
§ 97-9-11. Champerty and maintenance; solicitation and stirring up of litigation prohibited
§ 97-9-13. Champerty and maintenance; penalty
§ 97-9-15. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of party
§ 97-9-17. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of attorney representing party
§ 97-9-19. Champerty and maintenance; penalty for false affidavit
§ 97-9-23. Champerty and maintenance; exceptions; legislative intent
§ 97-9-25. Escape of inmates of state institutions; aiding, abetting, etc.
§ 97-9-27. Escape of prisoners; conveying articles useful for escape to felons
§ 97-9-29. Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody
§ 97-9-33. Escape of prisoners; aiding escapes from officers
§ 97-9-35. Escape of prisoners; permitting escape
§ 97-9-37. Escape of prisoners; private persons having custody of prisoner arrested on suspicion
§ 97-9-41. Escape of prisoners; concealing or harboring escaped prisoner
§ 97-9-43. Escape of prisoners; escapee may be retaken after term expires and imprisoned until tried
§ 97-9-53. Indictments; penalty for disclosing facts relating to indictment
§ 97-9-55. Intimidating judge, juror, witness, attorney, etc., or otherwise obstructing justice
§ 97-9-57. Officer not to converse with juror; penalty
§ 97-9-59. Perjury; definition
§ 97-9-63. Perjury; subornation of
§ 97-9-65. Perjury; bribery to procure
§ 97-9-69. Property levied on; removing without authority
§ 97-9-71. Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers
§ 97-9-75. Resisting service of process