Senate Bill No. 31
(By Senator Blatnik)
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[Introduced January 14, 1944; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article two, chapter
sixty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to the penalty for
a conviction of second degree murder.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article two, chapter sixty-one of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.
§61-2-3. Penalty for murder of second degree.
Murder of the second degree shall be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than
five nor more than eighteen ten
years.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to raise the minimum
penalty for second degree murder and to allow a judge to use
his/her discretion in sentencing for second degree murder.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be strickenfrom the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
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