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2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 62. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
ARTICLE 2. PRESENTMENTS AND INDICTMENTS.
§62-2-7 Proof of possession of or title to property.

§62-2-7. Proof of possession of or title to property.
In a prosecution for an offense committed upon or relating to or affecting real estate, or for stealing, embezzling, destroying, injuring, or fraudulently receiving or concealing, any personal estate, it shall be sufficient to prove that when the offense was committed, the actual or constructive possession, or a general or special property in the whole or any part of such estate, was in the person or community alleged in the indictment or other accusation to be the owner thereof.

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