(a) The clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the magistrate court shall keep records in criminal proceedings in such form as the Supreme Court of Appeals may prescribe. The clerk shall enter in the records each order or judgment of the court and the date such entry is made.(b) Recording by Digital or Other Images. The clerk may keep any and all records and documents, otherwise required by any provision of law to be recorded in a book as described above, in a microphotographic, digital, or other format which employs a process for image-storing of documents in a reduced size. The format must conform to the applicable policy approved by the Supreme Court Administrative Director.
W.Va. R. Crim. P. 55
Effective October 1, 1981; amended effective February 1, 1985;September 1, 1995;April 23, 2014.
