West Virginia Code § 61-5-3

Penalties for perjury, subordination of perjury, and false swearing
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A person convicted of perjury or subordination of perjury shall be confined in the
penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years, and a person convicted of false
swearing shall be fined not more than $1,000, and, in the discretion of the court, confined in
jail not more than one year. And in either case the person convicted shall be adjudged
forever incapable of holding any office of honor, trust or profit in this state, eor of serving as a
juror.

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