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2010 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 62. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
ARTICLE 2. PRESENTMENTS AND INDICTMENTS.
§62-2-23. Prosecutions against corporations; effect of failure of corporation to appear.
§62-2-23. Prosecutions against corporations; effect of failure of
corporation to appear.On any indictment or presentment against a corporation, if a summons be served according to the provisions of sections thirteen or fourteen, article three, chapter fifty-six of this code, and the defendant fail to appear, the court may proceed to trial and judgment without further process, as if the defendant had appeared and pleaded not guilty. And where, in any such case, the publication of a copy of the process is required according to said section, the expense of such publication may be certified by the court to the auditor, and shall be paid out of the treasury of the state; but the same shall be taxed with other costs, and collected from the defendant, if judgment be for the state, and be paid into the treasury of the state by the officer collecting the same.
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