Comer v. Tom A.M.

This is an appeal from a decision by the Circuit Court of Jackson County transferring the fifteen-year-old appellant Tom A.M., 1 from juvenile jurisdiction to the court’s criminal jurisdiction pursuant to W.Va.Code 49-5-10(a) [1978]. Based upon our review of the petition for appeal, the briefs and the record, we affirm.

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Tom A.M. was charged on January 16, 1990, with the first-degree sexual assault of his nine-year-old sister in violation of W.Va.Code, 61-8B-3(a)(2) [1984], A juvenile petition was filed on January 19, 1990 by K.M. Comer, the investigating officer from West Virginia State…