As Amended
SEC. 97-9-65. Perjury; bribery to procure.
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.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 5(8); 1857, ch. 64, art. 210; 1871, Sec. 2663; 1880, Sec. 2927; 1892, Sec. 1246; 1906, Sec. 1321; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1954; 1930, Sec. 1085; 1942, Sec. 2318.