STATE v. ELLSWORTH

No. 16350.

331 S.E.2d 503 (1985)

STATE of West Virginia v. ELLSWORTH J.R.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. King, Public Defender Corp., Martinsburg, for appellant.

Janet Frye Steele, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.


MILLER, Justice:

This is a direct statutory appeal by Ellsworth J.R., a juvenile,1 from an order of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County transferring him to adult criminal jurisdiction upon a finding of probable cause to believe he had committed murder, one of the permissible transfer offenses enumerated in W.Va. Code, 49-5-1(d)(1).

The principal assignment of error relates to the validity...

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