Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 13A-10-121 (2026)
Bribing a Witness.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
(a) A person commits the crime of bribing a witness if he offers, confers or agrees to confer any thing of value upon a witness or a person he believes will be called as a witness in any official proceeding with intent to:
(1) Corruptly influence the testimony of that person;
(2) Induce that person to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or
(3) Induce that person to absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been legally summoned.
(b) This section does not apply to the payment of additional compensation to an expert witness over and above the amount otherwise prescribed by law to be paid a witness.
(c) Bribing a witness is a Class C felony.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5005; Acts 1979, No. 79-471, p. 862, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1991–2017 · leading case: Barnette v. State, 855 So. 2d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003).
Barnette v. State, 855 So. 2d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003). “], a witness or a person he believed would be called as a witness in an official proceeding, to-wit: Spring Term of the Grand Jury of the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, with intent to corruptly influence the testimony of that person, in violation of § 13A-10-121 of the Code…”
Shirley Dahl v. Jim Holley, 312 F.3d 1228 (11th Cir. 2002). “” Ala. Code § 13A-10-121(a)(1). The record demonstrates that, at the time of Dahl’s arrest, the officers had received information from McCardle — an informant that had proved reliable on at least one previous occasion (the stop and search of Dahl’s son) — that Dahl had offered…”
Johnson v. State, 932 So. 2d 979 (Ala. Crim. App. 2005). “) Although this Court has never addressed this specific argument with respect to the statute making it an offense to intimidate a witness, we have addressed the argument with respect to the statute making it an offense to bribe a witness, § 13A-10-121, which is substantially…”
Trevioun Lamont Cornelius Briggs v. State of Mississippi, 226 So. 3d 59 (Miss. 2017). “” See Ala. Code Ann. § 13A-10-121. 2 ¶ 19. In Barnette , a few days following an incident involving a sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old, which had been reported to the police, an acquaintance of the alleged perpetrator called the victim’s stepfather and offered him money to…”
Lamar v. State, 603 So. 2d 1113 (Ala. Crim. App. 1991). “Lamar, CC-89-324, in the Circuit Court of Covington County, in violation of § 13A-10-121, Code of Alabama 1975. Lamar was tried before a jury and was found guilty as charged.”
Lamar v. State, 603 So. 2d 1117 (Ala. 1992). “Early David Lamar was convicted of bribing a witness, in violation of § 13A-10-121, Ala.Code 1975. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction, with an opinion, Lamar v.”
Kinard Julius Henson v. State of Alabama., 100 So. 3d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2011). “Code 1975, and bribing a witness, a violation of § 13A-10-121, Ala. Code 1975. 1 Henson was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently with the other, as well as with any other sentence.”
— Ala. Code § 13A-10-121(a) — 2 cases
Barnette v. State, 855 So. 2d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003). “], a witness or a person he believed would be called as a witness in an official proceeding, to-wit: Spring Term of the Grand Jury of the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, with intent to corruptly influence the testimony of that person, in violation of § 13A-10-121 of the Code…”
Lamar v. State, 603 So. 2d 1113 (Ala. Crim. App. 1991). “Lamar, CC-89-324, in the Circuit Court of Covington County, in violation of § 13A-10-121, Code of Alabama 1975. Lamar was tried before a jury and was found guilty as charged.”
— Ala. Code § 13A-10-121(a)(1) — 2 cases
Shirley Dahl v. Jim Holley, 312 F.3d 1228 (11th Cir. 2002). “” Ala. Code § 13A-10-121(a)(1). The record demonstrates that, at the time of Dahl’s arrest, the officers had received information from McCardle — an informant that had proved reliable on at least one previous occasion (the stop and search of Dahl’s son) — that Dahl had offered…”
Barnette v. State, 855 So. 2d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003). “], a witness or a person he believed would be called as a witness in an official proceeding, to-wit: Spring Term of the Grand Jury of the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, with intent to corruptly influence the testimony of that person, in violation of § 13A-10-121 of the Code…”
— Ala. Code § 13A-10-121(a)(l) — 1 case
Barnette v. State, 855 So. 2d 1129 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003). “], a witness or a person he believed would be called as a witness in an official proceeding, to-wit: Spring Term of the Grand Jury of the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, with intent to corruptly influence the testimony of that person, in violation of § 13A-10-121 of the Code…”
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