Appeals from judgments against persons deprived of their liberty in cases of habeas corpus, and from judgment on informations in the nature of quo warranto to try the right to a public office, whether state, district, county, or municipal, and in actions of mandamus where the public interest is concerned, and in cases at law or in chancery involving taxes claimed by the state, county, or municipality, may be returnable before the Supreme Court immediately, without reference to the return days for other appeals; and when the transcript of the record of the case shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, the appellee having been summoned to appear and answer the appeal, ten days after service of the summons on him or his attorney, the court shall consider such cases as entitled to be heard without regard to the district from which they are brought, and in preference to all civil cases, and they shall be heard and disposed of with all convenient speed.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
Chapter 3 - Practice and Procedure in Supreme Court
§ 11-3-3. Appeals in some cases returnable at any time
§ 11-3-5. Appeal not to fail for certain irregularities
§ 11-3-7. Cases heard at return term; judgment
§ 11-3-9. No reversal or annulment for want of jurisdiction
§ 11-3-11. Voluntary dismissal of appeal
§ 11-3-15. Effect of dismissal
§ 11-3-21. Motion to discharge supersedeas in certain cases
§ 11-3-27. Judgment on bond for supersedeas
§ 11-3-31. Judgment certified to be enforced
§ 11-3-33. Bond may be excepted to
§ 11-3-35. Judgment not to be reversed for certain errors
§ 11-3-37. Appellant not entitled to reversal for error as to another
§ 11-3-39. Judgments affirmed in part and reversed in part
§ 11-3-41. Final judgment to be certified to court below; collection of court costs
§ 11-3-43. Copy of opinion certified to court below; costs in event of successful appeal