A Kanawha County judge let a witness in a murder case out of jail today after she promised to come to court.
Jazmin Mitchell, 19, had been in jail since her arrest June 3 in Beckley, said assistant Kanawha prosecutor Maryclaire Akers.
Mitchell was supposed to come to court last month to serve as a witness in prosecutors' case against Tremaine Jackson, 23, of Charleston, who faces a murder charge in the death of Bryan Rogers, 29.
Jackson allegedly shot Rogers, who was of the Ripley area, to death last December on Charleston's West Side over a heroin theft.
Mitchell had a relationship with Jackson, and they have a child together, Akers said Thursday.
The court issued what's called a "writ of body attachment," for Mitchell, Akers said. The writ "operates as a warrant and then the person is arrested and held in jail until a hearing," the prosecutor said.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King asked Mitchell, who doesn't have a criminal record, if she promises to show up for court, and she said she did, Akers said.