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Rh Sec. 163. Every person guilty of subornation of perjury is punishable in the same manner as he would be if personally guilty of the perjury so procured.

Sec. 164. No person who has been convicted of perjury, or of subornation of perjury, shall thereafter be received as a witness in any action, proceeding or matter whatever upon his own behalf; nor in any action or proceeding between adverse parties, against any person who shall object thereto, until the judgment against him has been reversed. But where such person has been actually received as a witness contrary to the provisions of this section, his incompetency shall not prejudice the rights, innocently acquired, of any other person claiming under the proceeding in which such person was so received.

Section 165. Offering false evidence.

166. Deceiving a witness.

167. Preparing false evidence.

168. Destroying evidence.

169. Preventing or dissuading witnesses from attending.

170. Bribing witnesses.

Sec. 165. Every person who, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, offers in evidence, as genuine, any book, paper, document, record, or other instrument in writing, knowing the same to have been forged, or fraudulently altered, is punishable in the same manner as the forging or false alteration of such instrument is made punishable by the provisions of this Code.

Sec. 166. Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, proceeding by authority of law, with intent to affect the testimony of such witness, is guilty of a misdemeanor.