2010 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 62. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
ARTICLE 10. PREVENTION OF CRIME.
§62-10-2. Intended offense -- Complaint; warrant.
62-10-1. Security to keep the peace.Every magistrate shall have the power to require, from persons not of good fame, security for their good behavior and to keep the peace, for a term not exceeding one year. A person who violates a court order to keep the peace may be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
WVC 62-10-2
§62-10-2. Intended offense -- Complaint; warrant.
If complaint be made to any justice, that there is good cause
to fear that a person intends to commit an offense against the
person or property of another, he shall examine the complainant on
oath, and any witnesses who may be produced, reduce the complaint
to writing, and cause it to be signed by the complainant. If it
appear proper, such justice shall issue a warrant, reciting the
complaint, and requiring the person complained of forthwith to be
apprehended and brought before him or some other justice of the
county.
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