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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment » Article 2. Crimes Against the Person

§61-2-1. First and Second Degree Murder Defined; Allegations in Indictment for Homicide

Murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or by any willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or in the commission of, or attempt to commit, arson, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, escape from lawful custody, or a felony offense of manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance as defined in article four, chapter […]

§61-2-12. Robbery or Attempted Robbery; Penalties

(a) Any person who commits or attempts to commit robbery by: (1) Committing violence to the person, including, but not limited to, partial strangulation or suffocation or by striking or beating; or (2) uses the threat of deadly force by the presenting of a firearm or other deadly weapon, is guilty of robbery in the […]

§61-2-13. Extortion or Attempted Extortion by Threats; Penalties

(a) A person who threatens injury to the character, person, or property of another person, or to the character, person, or property of his or her spouse or child, or accuses him or her or them of a criminal offense, and thereby obtains anything of value, or other consideration, he or she is guilty of […]

§61-2-14. Abduction of Person; Kidnapping or Concealing Child; Penalties

(a) Any person who takes away another person, or detains another person against such person's will, with intent to marry or defile the person, or to cause the person to be married or defiled by another person; or takes away a child under the age of sixteen years from any person having lawful charge of […]

§61-2-14a. Kidnapping; Penalty

(a) Any person who unlawfully takes custody of, conceals, confines, transports, or restrains another person against his or her will by means of force, threat of force, duress, fraud, deceit, inveiglement, misrepresentation, or enticement with the intent to: (1) Hold another person for ransom, reward, or concession;

§61-2-14b. Venue of Offenses Under §§61-2-14 and 61-2-14a

In the case of every offense committed in violation of the provisions of section fourteen and section fourteen-(a) of this article, regardless of whether the offense originated within or without this state, the venue of the offense shall lie in the county where the person was taken, or induced to go away or otherwise kidnapped, […]

§61-2-14c. Penalty for Threats to Kidnap or Demand Ransom

If any person, with intent to extort from any other person any ransom, money or other thing, or any concession or advantage of any sort, shall, by speech, writing, printing, drawing or any other method or means of communication, directly or indirectly threaten to take away forcibly or by stealth or otherwise kidnap any person, […]

§61-2-14f. Penalties for Abduction of a Child Near a School

Any person who, under the provisions of section fourteen of this article, abducts a child sixteen years of age or under within one thousand feet of a school is guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than fifteen years.

§61-2-14g. Unlawful Restraint; Penalties

(a) Any person who, without legal authority intentionally restrains another with the intent that the other person not be allowed to leave the place of restraint and who does so by physical force or by overt or implied threat of violence or by actual physical restraint but without the intent to obtain any other concession […]

§61-2-15. Assault, Battery on School Employees; Penalties

(a) If any person commits an assault: (1) By unlawfully attempting to commit a violent injury to the person of a school employee while he or she is engaged in the performance of his or her duties, is commuting to or from his or her place of employment or if the motive for the assault […]

§61-2-15a. Assault, Battery on Athletic Officials; Penalties

(a) If any person commits an assault as defined in subsection (b), section nine of this article, to the person of an athletic official during the time the official is acting as an athletic official, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $500, or confined […]

§61-2-16a. Malicious Assault; Unlawful Assault; Battery and Recidivism of Battery; Assault on a Driver, Conductor, Motorman, Captain, Pilot or Other Person in Charge of Any Vehicle Used for Public Conveyance

(a) Malicious assault. — Any person who maliciously shoots, stabs, cuts or wounds or by any means causes bodily injury with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill any driver, conductor, motorman, captain or other person in charge of any vehicle or boat, driven by steam, electricity, gasoline or other motive power and used for […]