If any person forge a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of a clerk of a court, notary public, judge, justice, or any public officer, in relation to any matter wherein such certificate, return, or attestation may be received as legal proof, or utter or attempt to employ as true such forged record, certificate, return or attestation, knowing the same to be forged, he shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 4. Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency
§61-4-1. Forgery of Public Record, Certificate, Return or Attestation of Court or Officer; Penalty
§61-4-2. Forgery of Official Seals; Keeping or Concealing Instrument for Forging Same; Penalty
§61-4-3. Counterfeiting; Penalty
§61-4-4. Making Plates, etc., for Forgery; Possession of Same; Penalty
§61-4-5. Forging or Uttering Other Writing; Penalty; Creation of Unauthorized Demand Draft
§61-4-6. Possession of Counterfeit With Intent to Utter; Penalty
§61-4-7. Unauthorized Currency; Penalty
§61-4-8. Passing or Receiving Unauthorized Currency Knowingly; Penalty
§61-4-9. Unauthorized Use, Transfer, Acquisition, Alteration or Possession of Certain Benefits