If any prosecuting attorney shall compromise or suppress any indictment or presentment without the consent of the court entered of record, he shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance in office, and may be removed therefrom in the mode prescribed by law.
W. Va. Code § 62-2-25
Compromise or suppression of indictment or presentment
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey (1983)
Most recently applied in State of West Virginia v. Robert Scott R., Jr. (January 2014)
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