WV · rules
W. Va. R. Crim. P. 10
Arraignment
Arraignment shall be conducted in open court and shall consist of reading the indictment or information to the defendant or stating to the defendant the substance of the charge and calling on the defendant to plead thereto. The reading of the indictment or information may be waived by the defendant in open court. The defendant shall be given a copy of the indictment or information before being called upon to plead.
History
[Effective October 1, 1981; amended effective September 1, 1995.]
Provenance
- Source
- courtswv.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
1cea38ebcde0221044684dc60ce2f4697cd9766d30b7682ff34d780acc67d6d2
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.