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§§ 6976-6983 § 6976. Subornation, punishment of. 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.

§ 6977. Same, conviction of disqualifies. 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 when 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.

CHAPTER 13.

FALSIFYING EVIDENCE.

§ 6978. Offering false evidence. 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.

§ 6979. Deceiving a witness. 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.

§ 6980. Preparing false evidence. Every person guilty of falsely preparing any book, påper, record, instrument in writing or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it or allow it to be produced as genuine, upon any trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, is guilty of a felony.

§ 6981. Destroying evidence. Every person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon any trial, proceeding inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, willfully destroys the same, with intent thereby to prevent the same from being produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6982. Preventing witness attending. Every person who willfully prevents or dissuades any person who has been duly summoned or subparnaed as a witness from attending. pursuant to the command of the summons or subparna, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6983. Same. Contemplated witness. Every person who willfully prevents or dissuades any person who is or may become a witness, from attending upon any trial, proceeding or inquiry, authorized by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.