State Ex Rel. Canterbury v. Paul

MAYNARD, Justice:

In this petition for a writ of prohibition, we are asked to address a magistrate’s interpretation of W.Va.Code § 50-3-2 (1996), which requires magistrates to impose certain court costs upon conviction in criminal cases. The petitioner in this case, the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority (Jail Authority), asserts that the respondent magistrate is wrongfully refusing to impose those statutory court costs.

After careful consideration of the arguments of the parties, we find that the magistrate’s refusal to impose those court costs ignores the…