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2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 3. Trial of Criminal Cases › §62-3-21. Discharge for Failure to Try Within Certain Time

Every person charged by presentment or indictment with a felony or misdemeanor and, remanded to a court of competent jurisdiction for trial, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for the offense, if there be three regular terms of such court, after the presentment is made or the indictment is found against him without a trial, unless the failure to try him was caused by his insanity; or by the witnesses for the state being enticed or kept away, or prevented from attending by sickness or inevitable accident; or by a continuance granted on the motion of the accused; or by reason of his escaping from jail, or failing to appear according to his recognizance, or of the inability of the jury to agree in their verdict; and every person charged with a misdemeanor before a justice of the peace, city police judge, or any other inferior tribunal, and who has therein been found guilty and has appealed his conviction of guilt and sentence to a court of record, shall be forever discharged from further prosecution for the offense set forth in the warrant against him if after his having appealed such conviction and sentence, there be three regular terms of such court without a trial, unless the failure to try him was for one of the causes hereinabove set forth relating to proceedings on indictment.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-1. Fines to Accrue to State for Support of Free Schools, Unless Otherwise Provided

Unless otherwise expressly provided, or manifestly inconsistent with the intention of the Legislature, every fine or forfeiture imposed by or under an act of the Legislature shall be and accrue to the state for the support of the free schools, and shall be applied to such purpose pursuant to the fifth section of article XII of the Constitution.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-2. Allowance to Informer or Person Prosecuting

Although a law may allow an informer or person prosecuting to have part of a fine, the whole thereof shall go to the state for the support of the free schools, unless the name of such informer or prosecutor be indorsed on or written at the foot of the presentment at the time it is made, or of the indictment before it is presented to the grand jury, or of the writ issued in the action, or the warrant, or the notice of the motion, before the service of such writ, warrant or notice.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-3. Fine, Imprisonment, etc., to Be by Indictment, etc.; Exception

Where fine and imprisonment, or fine and any punishment is imposed by law, the proceeding shall be by indictment or presentment in the circuit court, or other court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, in the county wherein the offense was committed, unless otherwise specially provided.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-4. Recovery of Fines Before Justice or in Court

Where a fine alone is imposed, if it be in a case mentioned in section one, article eighteen, chapter fifty of this code, it may be recovered upon warrant of a justice having jurisdiction; and whether so mentioned or not, it may be recovered by presentment or indictment in the circuit court, or other court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, in the county wherein the offense was committed.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-8. Duties of Prosecuting Attorney in Relation to Fines

It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of every county to institute and prosecute in the circuit court, or other court having jurisdiction thereof, as the case may be, proper proceedings for the recovery of all fines imposed by law, where the cases are cognizable in such court. He shall superintend the issuing of executions on judgments for fines rendered by such courts, and cause all delinquencies in relation to the service or return of such executions to be duly prosecuted. If judgment be rendered by the circuit or other court for a fine, whether with or without imprisonment, a docket fee of $10 for the prosecuting attorney's services, but payable into the county treasury, shall be taxed in the costs against the offender.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-9. Capias Pro Fine; Release of Defendant on Bond

When a judgment for fine and costs is rendered by a circuit court, or other court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, the court may order a capias pro fine to be issued thereon at any time during the term at which the judgment is rendered, and if not such order be made, such capias shall be issued by the clerk of the court in vacation if he be ordered to do so by the prosecuting attorney. If the judgment of the court in such case be that the defendant be imprisoned and fined, or that he be fined and imprisoned until the fine and costs be paid, or if the defendant be imprisoned by virtue of such capias pro fine, in either event, the defendant may be released from such imprisonment, where he is detained for a failure to pay such fine and costs, only upon his giving bond with good security before the court, or before the clerk thereof in vacation, or before the sheriff of the county in which such judgment is rendered, payable to the State of West Virginia, for the payment of such fine and costs, at a time not exceeding twelve months after the date of such bond. If default be made in the payment of such bond, the same may be proceeded against to judgment and execution as if it were a forthcoming bond.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-10. Discharge From Confinement; Allowances for Labor While Confined

Any person imprisoned for the purposes stated in the preceding section may be discharged from confinement at any time by the court wherein he was sentenced, and in no event shall his confinement, for failure to pay a fine and costs, exceed the term of six months. Any person confined in prison who is required to perform labor under the provisions of article fifteen, chapter seventeen of this code, shall be allowed, as a credit upon the fine and costs for which he is liable, the sum of $1.50 a day for each day he has so labored, and when the amount of such credits equals the amount of the fine and costs he shall be discharged from custody.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-11. Fieri Facias for Collection of Fines

On every judgment for a fine rendered by a circuit court, or other court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, if no special order be made by the court or judge, the clerk of the court shall issue a writ of fieri facias immediately after the term at which such judgment was rendered. And unless paid in court, a payment to any person other than the officer who holds the execution shall not discharge the judgment.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 4. Recovery of Fines in Criminal Cases › §62-4-16. Community Service Work May Be Substituted in Lieu of a Fine in Municipal Court and Magistrate Court; Immunity From Suit

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, a municipal judge or a magistrate may substitute, in lieu of the imposition of a sentence of incarceration or imposition of a fine, community service work for such incarceration or fine. Where community service work is ordered as a substitute on a sentence of incarceration, an eight-hour work day shall extinguish one day of any sentence of incarceration. The minimum wage established by the prevailing federal minimum wage in effect at the time sentencing is imposed shall be used to compute the amount of community service work necessary to extinguish the fine. In the discretion of the court, the sentence credits may run concurrently or consecutively.
(b) Any community service ordered pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be performed for government entities or charitable or nonprofit entities.
(c) Any person who is sentenced to court-ordered community service under this section by a municipal court shall be supervised by the chief of police, or his or her designee. Any person who is sentenced to court-ordered community service under this section by a magistrate shall be supervised by the sheriff or other person designated by the county commission.
(d) Persons sentenced under the provisions of this section remain under the jurisdiction of the sentencing court. The court may withdraw the community service sentence at any time by order entered with or without notice and order a person previously sentenced to community service to serve the term of incarceration or to pay the fine available to the court upon the persons conviction:
Provided,
That any community service work performed before the community service sentence is withdrawn shall be credited against any term of incarceration or fine imposed.
(e) This section does not create any additional cause of action for individuals who appear in municipal or magistrate court. Any person who participates in court-ordered community service is limited to the remedies contained in 29-12A-1
et seq
. of this code, subject to any defenses, immunities, and limitations of liability contained therein.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-1. Payment of Witnesses

Sections sixteen and seventeen of article one, and section sixteen of article two, chapter fifty-nine of this code shall apply to a person attending as a witness under a recognizance or summons in a criminal case whether the same be a felony or misdemeanor, as well as to a person attending under a summons in a civil case, except that in a criminal case, a person residing out of this state, who attends a court therein as a witness, shall be allowed by such court a proper compensation for attendance and travel to and from the place of his abode; the amount of the same to be fixed by such court. Such compensation and other allowances shall, in all criminal cases be paid out of the treasury of the state.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-2. Payment of Witness Fees and Other Legal Charges by Prosecutor

The sum to which a witness is entitled who attends for the state, and any other legal charges incurred in a case wherein there is a prosecutor, shall be paid by such prosecutor as if he were the plaintiff in the case, unless there be a judgment against the defendant, in which case the same shall be taxed in the costs and paid to the persons entitled thereto, by the sheriff or other officer who may receive the same.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-4. Fees of Officer Executing Process or Rendering Service Out of County in Felony Cases

A sheriff or other officer, for traveling out of his county to execute process in a case of felony and, doing any act in the service thereof for which no other compensation is provided, shall receive therefor, out of the treasury, such compensation as the court from which the process issued may certify to be reasonable. When in such case an officer renders any service for which no specific compensation is provided, the court in which the case may be, may allow therefore what it deems reasonable, and such allowance shall be payable out of the treasury.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-5. Certificate by the Court as to Fees and Expenses

The certificate required by section fifteen, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code shall be made by the court in which the prosecution is, or to which the justice certifies, as hereinafter mentioned. Any other expense incident to a proceeding in a criminal case, which is payable out of the treasury, otherwise than under the preceding section, shall be certified by such court unless otherwise provided. With such certificate of allowance, there shall be transmitted to the Auditor the vouchers on which it is made.
The entry of such certificate shall state how much thereof is on account of each person prosecuted.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-6. Expenses of Preliminary Hearing Before Justice Certified to Clerk

A justice before whom there is any proceeding in a criminal case, preliminary to prosecution in a circuit court or other court of record having jurisdiction in criminal cases, shall certify to the clerk of such court all the expenses incident to such proceeding which are payable out of the treasury.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-7. Execution for Expenses Incident to Prosecution

In every criminal case the clerk of the court in which the accused is convicted shall, as soon as may be, make up a statement of all the expenses incident to the prosecution, including such as are certified to him by a justice under the preceding section; and execution for the amount of such expenses shall be issued and proceeded with, and article four of this chapter shall apply thereto in like manner as if, on the day of completing such statement, there was judgment in such court in favor of the state against the accused for such amount as a fine.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 5. Costs in Criminal Cases › §62-5-10. Mandatory Cost Assessed Upon Conviction of a Felony

(a) Every circuit court shall assess, in every felony criminal matter as a cost to the defendant, an assessment in the sum of $75 for each felony count of conviction. The assessment referred to herein shall be paid upon adjudication of guilt unless the court determines that the defendant is unable to pay in such a manner in which case payment of the assessment shall be paid prior to final disposition. If the circuit court determines that a defendant is financially unable to pay the assessment prior to final disposition, payment of the assessment shall be a mandatory condition of probation or parole.
(b) The clerk of the circuit court wherein the assessment is imposed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall, on or before the last day of each month, transmit all costs received pursuant to this section to the State Treasurer for deposit as follows: Fifty dollars to the credit of the crime victims compensation fund created by the provisions of section four, article two-a, chapter fourteen of this code and $25 to the credit of the West Virginia community corrections fund created by the provisions of section four, article eleven-c of this chapter.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-1. Recognizance to Keep the Peace; Condition

Every recognizance to keep the peace shall be conditioned to the effect that the person of whom it is taken shall keep the peace and be of good behavior for such time, not exceeding one year, as the court or justice requiring it may direct; and if such court or justice directs, it may, when taken of a person charged with an offense, be with condition for so keeping the peace and being of good behavior, in addition to the other conditions of his recognizance imposed in accordance with the provisions of article one-c of this chapter.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-4. Witnesses in Criminal Cases; Forced Attendance

In a criminal case, a summons for a witness may be issued by the prosecuting attorney. Sections one, four, five, six and eight, article five, chapter fifty-seven of this code shall, in other respects, apply to a criminal as well as a civil case, except that a witness in a criminal case shall be obliged to attend and may be proceeded against for failing to do so, although there may not previously have been any payment, or tender to him of anything for attendance, mileage or tolls.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-5. Failure of Juror to Attend Inquest Out of Court

The name of any person summoned by an officer, in failing to attend as a juror upon an inquest out of court, shall be returned by such officer at the next term of the circuit court of such officer's county. Such court shall fine such person, unless he have a reasonable excuse for his failure, $10.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-6. Proceedings for Fines for Contempt or Disobedience of Process

No court shall impose a fine upon a juror, witness or other person, for disobedience of its process or any contempt, unless he be present in a court at the time, or shall have been served with a rule of the court, returnable to a time certain, requiring him to show cause why the fine should not be imposed, and shall have failed to appear and show cause.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-7. Severability

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or its application, and to this end, the provisions of this article are declared to be severable.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions Concerning Criminal Procedures › §62-6-8. Alleged Victim of Sexual Offense May Not Be Required to Submit to a Polygraph Examination or Other Truth Telling Device as a Condition of Investigating an Alleged Offense nor May Prosecutors or Law-Enforcement Officers Decline to Proceed if the Victim Refuses Such Examination

No law-enforcement officer, prosecutor or any other government official may ask or require the adult, youth or child victim of an alleged sexual offense, as set forth in the provisions of section six, article eight, chapter sixty-one of this code; section six, article twelve of said chapter; section five, article eight-d, of said chapter; and article eight-b of said chapter, or any other sexual offense as defined under state or local law, to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth-testing examination as a condition for proceeding with the investigation of the alleged offense. No law-enforcement officer, prosecutor or any other government official may refuse to proceed with an investigation, warrant, indictment, information or prosecution of the alleged offense because the alleged victim refused to submit to such an examination.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6A. Securing Attendance of Nonresident Witnesses › §62-1A-1. Definitions

"Witness" as used in this article shall include a person whose testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in a criminal action, prosecution or proceeding.
The word "state" shall include any territory of the United States, and the District of Columbia.
The word "summons" shall include a subpoena, order or other notice requiring the appearance of a witness.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6A. Securing Attendance of Nonresident Witnesses › §62-6A-2. Summoning Witness in This State to Testify in Another State

If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in this state certifies under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or that a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, that a person being within this state is a material witness in such prosecution, or grand jury investigation, and that his presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon presentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record in the county in which such person is, such judge shall fix a time and place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the witness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.
If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness is material and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be compelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or a grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence (and of any other state through which the witness may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel), will give to him protection from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and testify in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence at a time and place specified in the summons. In any such hearing the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all the facts stated therein.
If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to any officer of the requesting state to assure his attendance in the requesting state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such witness be forthwith brought before him for said hearing; and the judge at the hearing being satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination the certificate shall be prima facie proof of such desirability may, in lieu of issuing subpoena or summons, order that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state.
If the witness, who is summoned as above provided, after being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person the sum of 10¢ a mile for each mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending and $5 for each day, that he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6A. Securing Attendance of Nonresident Witnesses › §62-6A-3. Summoning Witness in Another State to Testify in This State

If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provisions for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions, or grand jury investigations commenced or about to commence, in this state, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in this state, or in a grand jury investigation which has commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such court may issue a certificate under the seal of the court stating the facts and specifying the number of days the witness will be required. Said certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this state to assure his attendance in this state. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county in which the witness is found.
If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in this state he shall be tendered the sum of 10¢ a mile for each mile by the ordinary travel route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending, and $5 for each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness. A witness who has appeared in accordance with the provisions of the summons shall not be required to remain within this state a longer period of time than the period mentioned in the certificate, unless otherwise ordered by the court. If such witness, after coming into this state, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for in the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6A. Securing Attendance of Nonresident Witnesses › §62-6A-4. Exemption From Arrest or Service of Process

If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him to attend and testify in this state he shall not while in this state pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons.
If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, he shall not while so passing through this state be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6B. Protection and Preservation of Statements and Testimony of Child Witness › §62-6B-1. Legislative Findings

The Legislature hereby finds that there are rare occasions when the interests of justice cannot be served because a child who is alleged to be the victim of certain offenses is unable to testify while in the physical presence of the defendant in the courtroom.
The Legislature further finds that the Constitutional right of the accused to be confronted with the witnesses against him or her must be protected and that this Constitutional guarantee can be protected while, at the same time, allowing a child to testify outside of the physical presence of a defendant in the courtroom.
The Legislature further finds that a child, more so than an adult, may be subject to coercion and pressure by interested adults and the interests of justice would be served by requiring, unless infeasible, memorialization of child victim statements in certain criminal matters.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6B. Protection and Preservation of Statements and Testimony of Child Witness › §62-6B-2. Definitions

For the purposes of this article, the words or terms defined in this section, and any variation of those words or terms required by the context, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. These definitions are applicable unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
(1) "Child witness" means a person under the age of sixteen years of age who is or will be called to testify in a criminal matter concerning an alleged violation of the provisions of sections three, four, five and seven, article eight-b, chapter sixty-one of this code in which the child is the alleged victim.
(2) "Live, closed-circuit television" means a simultaneous transmission, by closed-circuit television or other electronic means, between the courtroom and the testimonial room.
(3) "Operator" means the individual authorized by the court to operate the closed-circuit television equipment used in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(4) "Testimonial room" means a room within the courthouse other than the courtroom from which the testimony of a child witness or the defendant is transmitted to the courtroom by means of live, closed-circuit television.
(5) “Interviewed child” shall mean any person under the age of eighteen who has been interviewed by means of any type of recording equipment in connection with alleged criminal behavior or allegations of abuse or neglect of any child under the age of eighteen.
(6) “Recorded interview” means any electronic recording of the interview, and any transcript thereof, of an interviewed child conducted by: (1) An employee or representative of a child advocacy center as that term is defined in section one hundred one, article three, chapter forty-nine of this code; (2) any psychologist, psychiatrist, physician, nurse, social worker or other person appointed by the court to interview the interviewed child as provided in subsection (c), section three of this article; or (3) a child protective services worker, law-enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney or any representative of his or her office, or any other person investigating allegations of criminal behavior or behavior alleged to constitute abuse or neglect of a child.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6B. Protection and Preservation of Statements and Testimony of Child Witness › §62-6B-3. Findings of Fact Required for Taking Testimony of Child Witness by Closed-Circuit Television; Considerations for Court

(a) Upon a written motion filed by the prosecuting attorney, the child's attorney or the child's guardian ad litem, and upon findings of fact determined pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, a circuit court may order that the testimony of a child witness may be taken at a pretrial proceeding or at trial through the use of live, closed-circuit television.
(b) Prior to ordering that the testimony of a child witness may be taken through the use of live, closed-circuit television, the circuit court must find by clear and convincing evidence, after conducting an evidentiary hearing on this issue, that:
(1) The child is an otherwise competent witness;
(2) That, absent the use of live, closed-circuit television the child witness will be unable to testify due solely to being required to be in the physical presence of the defendant while testifying;
(3) The child witness can only testify if live, two-way closed-circuit television is used in the trial; and
(4) That the state's ability to proceed against the defendant without the child witness' live testimony would be substantially impaired or precluded.
(c) The court shall consider the following factors in determining the necessity of allowing a child witness to testify by the use of live, closed-circuit television:
(1) The age and maturity of the child witness;
(2) The facts and circumstances of the alleged offense;
(3) The necessity of the child's live testimony to the prosecution's ability to proceed as well as any prejudice to the defendant by allowing testimony through closed-circuit television;
(4) Whether or not the facts of the case involve the alleged infliction of bodily injury to the child witness or the threat of bodily injury to the child or another; and
(5) Any mental or physical handicap of the child witness.
(d) In determining whether to allow a child witness to testify through live, closed-circuit television the court shall appoint a psychiatrist or a licensed psychologist with at least five years clinical experience who shall serve as an advisor or friend of the court to provide the court with an expert opinion as to whether, to a reasonable degree of professional certainty, the child witness will suffer severe emotional harm, be unable to testify based solely on being in the physical presence of the defendant while testifying and that the child witness does not evidence signs of being subjected to undue influence or coercion. The opinion of the psychiatrist or licensed psychologist shall be filed with the circuit court at least thirty days prior to the final hearing on the use of live, closed-circuit television and the defendant shall be allowed to review the opinion and present evidence on the issue by the use of an expert or experts or otherwise.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6B. Protection and Preservation of Statements and Testimony of Child Witness › §62-6B-5. Memorialization of Statements of Certain Child Witnesses; Admissibility; Hearing

(a) After the effective date of this section, whenever any law-enforcement officer, physician, psychologist, social worker, or investigator, in the course of his or her employment or profession or while engaged in an active criminal investigation as a law-enforcement officer or an agent of a prosecuting attorney, obtains a statement from a child 13 years of age or younger who is an alleged victim in an investigation or prosecution alleging a violation of the provisions of §61-8B-3, §61-8B-4, §61-8B-5, or §61-8B-7 of this code, he or she shall immediately make a contemporaneous written notation and recitation of the statement received or obtained. An audio recording or video recording with sound capability of the statement may be used in lieu of the written recitation required by the provisions of this section. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section creates a presumption that the statement is inadmissible. The statement may be admitted if, after a hearing on the matter, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the failure to comply with the provisions of this section was a good faith omission and that the content of the proffered statement is an accurate recital of the information provided by the child and is otherwise admissible.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) Medical personnel and other persons performing a forensic medical examination of a child who is an alleged victim; and
(2) Prosecuting attorneys when counseling with a child in preparation for eliciting the child’s testimony in court.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 6B. Protection and Preservation of Statements and Testimony of Child Witness › §62-6B-6. Confidentiality of Recorded Interviews of Children

(a) Except as provided by the provisions of this article, recorded interviews of an interviewed child in any judicial or administrative proceeding shall not be published or duplicated except pursuant to the terms of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. All written documentation in any form that is related to the recorded interview shall also be deemed confidential.
(b) Prior to the commencement of formal proceedings as contemplated in subsection (a) of this section, the persons or agencies listed in subdivision (6),section two of this article shall be entitled to access to or copies of the recorded interview of an interviewed child: Provided, That such persons or agencies may provide access to the recorded interview of a child to a legal parent, guardian or custodian of such child when: (1) Such parent, guardian or custodian is not alleged to have been involved or engaged in conduct that may give rise to a judicial or administrative proceeding; and (2) it would not undermine or frustrate an ongoing investigation: Provided, however, That prior to the commencement of formal proceedings only psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, nurses and social workers who are providing services to the interviewed child may be afforded reasonable access to the recorded interview.
(c) The Supreme Court of Appeals is requested to promulgate a rule or rules regulating in the courts of this state the publication and duplication of recorded interviews, including use, duplication and publication by counsel, and to include in any such rule limitations upon the publication, duplication, distribution or use of the recorded statements of a child.
(d) Any person who knowingly and willfully duplicates or publishes a recorded interview in violation of the terms of an order entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or in violation of the provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be confined in jail for not less than ten days nor more than one year or fined not less than $2,000 nor more than $10,000, or both fined and confined.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-1. Stay of Proceedings

Upon the application of any person entitled, under the provisions of article four, chapter fifty-eight of this code, to an appeal or writ of error from a judgment in a prosecution for any offense or crime, the criminal court, intermediate court or other court of record of limited jurisdiction, or the judge of such court in vacation, shall make an order postponing the execution of the sentence for a reasonable time within which to prepare and present bills of exceptions to the trial court and until a reasonable time beyond the first day of the next regular term of the circuit court of the county.
Upon the application of any person entitled, under the provisions of article five, chapter fifty-eight of this code, to an appeal or writ of error from the judgment a circuit court convicting him of any offense or crime, the circuit court or the judge thereof in vacation, shall make an order postponing the execution of the sentence for a reasonable time to enable him to prepare and present bills of exceptions and to secure a transcript of the evidence before the court at the trial, and until a reasonable time beyond the first day of the next term of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-2. Period of Stay When Writ of Error Awarded

A writ of error, awarded under the provisions of article five, chapter fifty-eight of this code to any judgment of a circuit court referred to in the preceding section, shall operate as a stay of proceedings in the case until the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals therein. A writ of error awarded under the provisions of article four, chapter fifty-eight of this code, to any judgment of a court of record of limited jurisdiction, by a circuit court or the judge thereof, shall operate as a stay of proceedings in the case until the decision of the circuit court therein.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-7. Removal of Convicts to Penitentiary -- Generally

Every person sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary shall remain in the custody of the proper officer of the court pronouncing such sentence until he be delivered to a guard sent and duly authorized by the warden of the penitentiary for the removal of such person to the penitentiary. If such officer fail to make such delivery upon the request of such court, he shall forfeit $100. The warden of the penitentiary shall, so far as consistent with the safe conveyance of prisoners to the penitentiary, cause as many prisoners from the same or several counties to be removed to the penitentiary at the same time, and to that end shall send with the guard authorized to receive such prisoners as many additional guards as are necessary for the purpose, having due regard to economy as well as to the safe conveyance of the prisoners. If in the judgment of the officer of the court pronouncing sentence any facts exist making proper the employment of more guards than usual, he shall bring such facts to the attention of the warden of the penitentiary. The necessary expenses of every such prisoner or convict during his removal to the penitentiary, as well as the necessary expenses of the guard sent for that purpose, shall be paid by the Auditor out of the funds appropriated for criminal charges.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-8. Same -- Prevention of Rescue or Escape; Additional Guards

If on the way to the penitentiary or other place, in consequence of an attempt made, or reasonably apprehended, to rescue the prisoner, or in consequence of any other unforeseen danger, the guard to whom such prisoner was delivered is satisfied that more guards than accompanying him are necessary, he may summon such additional guards as are necessary, whose expenses shall be paid as provided for in section seven of this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-9. Same -- Immunity of Guards From Arrest

All guards while proceeding to the place where a prisoner is confined for the purpose of removing him to the penitentiary or other place, and while engaged in such removal, shall be privileged from arrest except for felony and, breach of the peace, such privilege to cover one day for each two hundred miles traveled by railroad and one day for each fifty miles traveled by other conveyances.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-10. Prison Commitment Order

The clerk of a circuit court in which a person is sentenced to serve a period of incarceration in a state prison shall transmit to the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation a certified commitment order in the form provided for in this section. A person may not be committed to a prison unless the commitment order is signed by the circuit judge with jurisdiction over the matter. The amendments to this section enacted during the 2019 regular session of the Legislature are effective July 1, 2019.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ____________________COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
State of West Virginia
v.circuit court Case No.___________________
Defendant: ______________________________
DOB: ________________ SSN: XXX-XX-______ Gender: _____Male/______Female
WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION CERTIFIED PRISON COMMITMENT ORDER
On the ______day of __________________, 20___, the State of West Virginia, by _____________________________________, and the defendant appeared in person and with counsel,________________________________________________.
The defendant has been convicted of the following offense(s):
_____________________________________________________________________
The defendant is committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation for a period of:
___________________________________________________________________________.
Conviction Date: _______________ Sentence Date: __________________
Effective Sentence Date: _____________ Resentence Date: _____________________ Consecutive to: ____ Concurrent with:
______________________________________________________________________
Credit for Jail/Prison Time Served: ______days Credit for Home Incarceration: ______days
Credit for Home Incarceration Parole: ______days Other NonPenal Credit: ________days
Additionally, the court finds:
______________________________________________________________________
The defendant shall be transported to and held in a facility under the control of the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The court further orders that the cost of incarceration in the jail pending transfer shall be paid by the Commissioner consistent with the provisions of §15A-3-16 of this code.
Special Instructions: ___________________________________________________________
It is further ordered that the Circuit Clerk shall immediately transmit a certified copy of this commitment order to the Central Office Inmate Records Manager of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation by facsimile at (fax number), by email at (email address) or other electronic transmission, or by mail at (street address).
Enter this _____day of __________, 2____.
___________________________________
Circuit Judge
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays › §62-7-10a. Jail Commitment Order

The clerk of a circuit court or magistrate court in which a person is sentenced to serve a period of incarceration in a jail facility under the control of the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall transmit to the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation a certified commitment order in the form provided for in this section. A person may not be committed to a jail unless the commitment order is signed by the circuit court judge or magistrate with jurisdiction over the matter. The amendments to this section enacted during the 2019 regular session of the Legislature are effective on July 1, 2019.
IN THE CIRCUIT/MAGISTRATE COURT OF ____________________COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
State of West Virginia
v.circuit/magistrate court Case No.___________________
Defendant: ______________________________
DOB: ________________ SSN: XXX-XX-______ Gender: _____Male/______Female
WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION CERTIFIED JAIL COMMITMENT ORDER
On the ______day of __________________, 20___, the State of West Virginia, by _____________________________________, and the defendant appeared in person and with counsel,________________________________________________.
The defendant has been convicted of the following offense(s):
_____________________________________________________________________
The defendant is committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation for a period of:
__________________________________________________________________________.
Conviction Date: _______________ Sentence Date: __________________
Effective Sentence Date: _____________ Resentence Date: _____________________ Consecutive to: ____ Concurrent with:
______________________________________________________________________
Credit for Time Served: ______days Credit for Home Incarceration: ______days
Credit for Home Incarceration Parole: ______days Other NonPenal Credit: ________days
Additionally, the court finds:
______________________________________________________________________
The defendant shall be transported to and held in a jail facility for the prescribed period of confinement in accordance with law. The court further orders that the cost of incarceration of misdemeanants sentenced to confinement in a jail shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of §15A-3-16 of this code.
Special Instructions: ___________________________________________________________
It is further ordered that the Circuit Clerk or Magistrate Court Clerk shall immediately transmit a certified copy of this commitment order to the Central Office Inmate Records Manager of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation by facsimile at (fax number), by email at (email address) or other electronic transmission, or by mail at (street address).
Enter this _____day of __________, 2____.
___________________________________
Circuit Judge/Magistrate
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure › Article 8. Crimes by and Proceedings Against Inmates › §62-8-1. Offenses by Inmates; Conspiracy

(a) A person imprisoned or otherwise in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation is guilty of a felony if he or she kills, wounds, or inflicts other bodily injury upon any person at any correctional facility; or breaks, cuts, or injures, or sets fire to any building, fixture, or fastening of any correctional facility, or jail or any part thereof, for the purpose of escaping or aiding any other inmate to escape therefrom, or renders any correctional facility or jail less secure as a place of confinement; or makes, procures, secretes, or has in his or her possession, any instrument, tool, or other thing for such purpose, or with intent to kill, wound, or inflict bodily injury; or resists the lawful authority of an officer or guard of any correctional facility or jail for such purpose or with such intent. Any three or more inmates confined, or in custody, who conspire together to commit any offense mentioned in this section are each guilty of a felony.
(b) Any person in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation who commits an act of bodily intrusion is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than five years. As used in this subsection "bodily intrusion" means penetration, however slight, of the anus of a male or female or the sex organ of a female without his or her consent by means of forcible compulsion and for reasons other than the sexual gratification of either person.