It is unlawful for any person to orally or in writing make any of the following threats and thereby cause another against his or her will to do any act or forbear doing a lawful act:
(A) A threat to unlawfully inflict bodily harm upon, or hold in confinement, the person threatened or another;
(B) A threat to unlawfully inflict damage to the property of the person threatened or another;
(C) A threat to unlawfully injure a trade, business, profession, or calling;
(D) A threat to expose a secret or deformity, publish a defamatory statement, or otherwise to expose any person to disgrace or ridicule; or
(E) A threat to make or cause to be made a criminal charge whether true or false; provided, that a warning of the consequences of a future violation of law given in good faith by a magistrate, peace officer, or prosecuting attorney to any person shall not be deemed a threat for the purpose of this section.
(2006 Code, § 10.43) Penalty, see § 130.99