Rule 42 – Criminal contempt

(a)Summary disposition. – A criminal contempt may be punished summarily if the judge certifies that the judge saw or heard the conduct constituting the contempt and that it was committed in the actual presence of the court. The order of contempt shall recite the...

Rule 41 – Search and seizure

(a)Authority to issue warrant. – Upon the request of a law enforcement officer or an attorney for the state, a search warrant authorized by this rule may be issued by a magistrate or a judge of a circuit court within the county wherein the property or person...

Rule 37 – Taking appeal

(a)How an appeal is taken. – (1)From a circuit court. – An appeal permitted by law from a circuit court to the Supreme Court of Appeals is taken by filing a notice of intent to appeal in the Office of the Clerk, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals...