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Other Offenses. § 6984. Bribing witness. Every person who gives or offers or promises to give, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, any bribe, upon any understanding or agreement that the testimony of such witness shall be thereby influenced, or who attempts by any other means fraudulently to induce any witness to give false testimony or to withhold true testimony, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 14.

OTHER OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE.

§ 6986. Injury to records and embezzlement. Every sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer, who either:

1. Mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases, obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his office; or,

2. Fraudulently appropriates to his own use or to the use of another person, or secretes with intent to appropriate to such use, any money, evidence of debt or other property intrusted to him in virtue of his office,

Is guilty of a felony.

§ 6986. Permitting escapes by officer. Every sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer, who either:

1. Allows any person lawfully held by him in custody to escape or go at large, except as may be permitted by law; or,

2. Receives any gratuity or reward, or any security or promise of one, to procure, assist, connive at or permit any prisoner in his custody to escape, whether such escape is attempted or not; or,

3. Commits any unlawful act tending to hinder justice,

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6987. Refusing to receive prisoner. Every officer who, in violation of a duty imposed upon him by law as such officer to receive into his custody any person as a prisoner, willfully neglects or refuses so to receive such person into his custody, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6988. Delaying to take prisoner before magistrate. Every public officer or other person having arrested any person upon any criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having jurisdiction to take his examination, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6989. Arrest or seizure without lawful authority. Every public officer or person pretending to be a public officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, Arrests any person, or detains him against his will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses any one of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty of a misdemeanor.