Title 16, Chapter 10, Section 97
( 16-10-97)
A person who by threat or force or by any threatening letter or
communication: (1) Endeavors to intimidate or impede any grand juror or petit
juror or any officer in or of any court of this state or any court
of any county or municipality of this state or any officer who may
be serving at any proceeding in any such court while in the
discharge of such juror's or officer's duties; (2) Injures any grand juror or petit juror in his person or
property on account of any indictment or verdict assented to by
him or on account of his being or having been such juror; or (3) Injures any officer in or of any court of this state or any
court of any county or municipality of this state or any officer
who may be serving at any proceeding in any such court in his
person or property on account of the performance of his official
duties shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more
than $5,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or
both. |