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Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 18-1-10. Title covers all appeals in civil and criminal actions; exceptions. - The only mode of reviewing a judgment or order in...
Section 18-1-20. Definitions. - As used in reference to courts and court procedure in...
Section 18-1-30. Who may appeal. - Any party aggrieved may appeal in the cases prescribed in...
Section 18-1-40. Appeals by corporations in criminal cases. - In all criminal cases against corporations the right of appeal...
Section 18-1-70. Notice of appeal shall stay execution of sentence. - In criminal cases service of notice of appeal in accordance...
Section 18-1-80. Confinement until bail given. - Pending such appeal the defendant shall still remain in confinement...
Section 18-1-90. When bail may be allowed. - Bail may be allowed to the defendant in all cases...
Section 18-1-100. Amendment to cure failure to perfect appeal. - When a party shall give, in good faith, notice of...
Section 18-1-120. How parties shall be designated on appeal. - The party appealing shall be known as the appellant and...
Section 18-1-130. Review of intermediate orders affecting judgment. - Upon an appeal from a judgment the court may review...
Section 18-1-140. Judgment on appeal. - Upon an appeal from a judgment or order the appellate...
Section 18-1-150. Certiorari to magistrates or municipal court. - Whenever a person shall have been convicted in a municipal...
Section 18-1-160. Where undertakings must be filed. - The various undertakings required to be given by this title...
Section 18-1-170. Rules of construction. - The rule of the common law that statutes in derogation...
Chapter 3 - Appeals From Magistrates In Criminal Cases
Section 18-3-10. Appeals to Court of Common Pleas. - Every person convicted before a magistrate of any offense whatever...
Section 18-3-20. How appeals shall be taken and prosecuted. - All appeals from magistrates' courts in criminal causes shall be...
Section 18-3-30. Time for appeal and statement of grounds; payment of fine does not waive right of appeal. - (A) The appellant, within ten days after sentence, shall file...
Section 18-3-40. Papers shall be filed with clerk of court. - Within ten days after service the magistrate shall file the...
Section 18-3-50. How bail shall be given. - Upon service of the notice the magistrate shall, on demand...
Section 18-3-60. Clerk shall enter case on motion calendar of court of common pleas. - The clerk of court, upon receipt of the case, shall...
Section 18-3-70. No examination of witnesses; action of court. - The appeal must be heard by the Court of Common...
Chapter 7 - Appeals To Circuit And County Courts In Other Cases
Section 18-7-10. Appeals from inferior courts; supersedeas. - When a judgment is rendered by a magistrates court, by...
Section 18-7-20. When and how appeal shall be taken. - The appellant, within thirty days after written notice of judgment...
Section 18-7-30. Contents of notice of appeal. - In the notice of appeal the appellant shall state in...
Section 18-7-60. Return; when and how made. - The court below shall thereupon, after ten days and within...
Section 18-7-70. Return; how made if magistrate is out of office. - When a magistrate by whom a judgment appealed from was...
Section 18-7-80. Return; further return when original is defective. - If the return be defective the appellate court may direct...
Section 18-7-90. Return; effect of dead, insane, or absent magistrate. - If a magistrate whose judgment is appealed from shall die,...
Section 18-7-100. Offer to allow revision of judgment of magistrate. - Within fifteen days after the service of the notice of...
Section 18-7-110. Offer to allow judgment on appeal. - In any appeal either party may, at any time before...
Section 18-7-130. Hearing of appeal. - The appeal shall be heard by the court upon all...
Section 18-7-140. Powers of appellate court; amendment of pleadings. - The court shall have the same power over its own...
Section 18-7-150. New trial below when defendant did not appear. - If (a) the appellant failed to appear before the magistrate,...
Section 18-7-160. Motions for new trial in appellate court; other procedural rules. - Either party may move for a new trial in the...
Section 18-7-170. Judgment on appeal. - Upon hearing the appeal the appellate court shall give judgment...
Section 18-7-180. Judgment on appeal; appeals on errors in fact. - If the appeal is founded on an error in fact...
Section 18-7-190. Judgment on appeal; appeals on issue of law. - If the issue joined before the magistrate was an issue...
Section 18-7-200. Procedure upon reversal of judgment already paid. - If the judgment below, or any part thereof, be paid...
Section 18-7-210. Judgment roll. - To every judgment upon an appeal there shall be annexed...
Section 18-7-220. Costs on appeal. - Costs shall be allowed to the prevailing party in judgments...
Section 18-7-230. Effect of failure to state error in judgment below on award of costs. - If in the notice of appeal the appellant shall not...
Section 18-7-240. Costs when appellant gains less than ten dollars by appeal. - The appellant shall not recover costs unless the judgment appealed...
Section 18-7-250. Effect of rejection of offer under Section 18-7-100 on award of costs. - If an offer be made under the provisions of Section...
Section 18-7-260. Effect of rejection of offer under Section 18-7-110 on award of costs. - If an offer be made under the provisions of Section...
Section 18-7-270. When award of costs is in discretion of court. - If the judgment appealed from be reversed in part and...
Section 18-7-280. Award of costs when appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution. - If the appeal be dismissed for want of prosecution, as...
Section 18-7-290. Award of costs to appellant shall include costs below. - Whenever costs are awarded to the appellant and when the...
Section 18-7-300. Setoff of costs against recovery. - If, upon an appeal, a recovery for any debt or...
Chapter 9 - Appeals To Supreme Court And Court Of Appeals
Section 18-9-10. When appeal may be taken. - An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court or...
Section 18-9-20. Review of convictions of capital offenses. - The Supreme Court shall review each conviction of a capital...
Section 18-9-30. Appeals in probate matters. - The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals shall have...
Section 18-9-40. Statement of questions of law and facts when questions certified. - When the circuit court shall render judgment upon a verdict...
Section 18-9-50. Practice and proceedings on appeal from courts of general sessions. - The practice and proceedings in cases of appeal from the...
Section 18-9-130. Effect of notice of appeal on execution of judgment; sale of defendant's property; appeal in civil action involving signatory of Master Settlement Agreement. - (A)(1) A notice of appeal from a judgment directing the...
Section 18-9-140. New undertaking in case sureties have become insolvent. - Whenever it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the...
Section 18-9-150. Deposit or surety when judgment requires delivery of documents or personalty. - If the judgment appealed from directs the assignment or delivery...
Section 18-9-160. Staying judgment to execute conveyance. - If the judgment appealed from directs the execution of a...
Section 18-9-170. Staying judgment for sale or delivery of land. - If the judgment appealed from direct the sale or delivery...
Section 18-9-180. Stay of proceedings upon execution of bond or perfection of appeal. - Whenever the defendant executes the bond mentioned in Sections 18-9-130,...
Section 18-9-190. Dispensing with or limiting security required. - The court below may, in its discretion, dispense with or...
Section 18-9-200. Undertakings may be in one instrument or several; service on adverse party. - The undertakings prescribed by Sections 18-9-130, 18-9-140 and 18-9-170 may...
Section 18-9-210. Justification by sureties; subsequent justification on new sureties. - An undertaking upon an appeal shall be of no effect,...
Section 18-9-220. When notice of appeal stays proceedings below. - In cases not provided for in Sections 18-9-130 and 18-9-150...
Section 18-9-230. Undertaking must be filed. - The undertaking must be filed with the clerk with whom...
Section 18-9-240. Security provisions apply to appeals in special proceedings. - The provisions of this chapter as to the security to...
Section 18-9-270. Judgment of Supreme Court or Court of Appeals. - The Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals may reverse,...
Section 18-9-280. Written opinions required; memorandum opinions. - When a judgment or decree is reversed or affirmed by...
Section 18-9-290. Time for filing decisions. - The justices of the Supreme Court shall file their decisions...