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SER Core v. Merrifield, Judge

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA
January 1998 Term
No. 24633
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA EX REL. BARBARA A. CORE,
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MARION COUNTY,
AND THE MARION COUNTY COMMISSION,
Petitioners

v.
HONORABLE RODNEY A. MERRIFIELD,
CHIEF JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MARION COUNTY,
Respondent

Petition for Writ of Prohibition
WRIT GRANTED AS MOULDED
Submitted: January 13, 1998
Filed: April 3, 1998  
James M. Cagle, Esq.   Elizabeth A. Pyles, Esq.  
Charleston, West Virginia                      Pyles & Auvil  
Attorney for the Petitioners                  Parkersburg, West Virginia

                                 Attorney for the Respondent
The Opinion of the Court was delivered PER CURIAM.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT
1. "It was the intention of the framers of the judicial article (Article VIII) of the W.Va. Const. that the clerk of a circuit court, although an independently elected, public official, be subject to the direction and control of the circuit
court of the county in which she serves or of the chief judge of that county's circuit court with regard to her court

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