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STATE EX REL. COOK v. HELMS

No. 15189.

292 S.E.2d 610 (1981)

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. S. M. COOK, M.D.P.S. v. Teressa HELMS.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Dissenting Opinion June 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S. Nason, Charleston, Peter A. Hendricks, Madison, for appellant.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., Richard S. Glaser, Jr., and Janet Frye Steele, Asst. Attys. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.

NEELY, Justice:

This is an appeal from a decision by the Circuit Court of Lincoln County transferring the seventeen-year-old appellant, Teressa Helms, from juvenile jurisdiction to the court's criminal jurisdiction pursuant to W.Va.Code, 49-5-10 [1978].

On 29 September 1980 Helms was charged by petition with murder under W.Va.Code, 61-2-1 [1923]. As a result of a detention hearing on the same day she was detained at the Southern Regional Detention...

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