ENROLLED

H. B. 2599

(By Delegates Hutchins and Varner)

[Passed March 11, 1995; in effect ninety days from passage.]






AN ACT to amend and reenact section three, article eight, chapter sixty-two of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to circuit court jurisdiction over crimes committed by convicts.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article eight, chapter sixty-two of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. CRIMES BY AND PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CONVICTS.
§62-8-3. Venue of trials of convicts.

All criminal proceedings against convicts in the custody of the commissioner of corrections shall be in the circuit court in the county where the crime is committed.