Title 12, Title 12 Procedure

No judgment, verdict, or decision shall be set aside, reversed, or new trial granted, in any criminal proceedings, for error as to any matter of pleading, unless in the opinion of the supreme court, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall appear that the error complain…

The superior court, in any criminal case appealed to that court in which the defendant paid his or her fine and costs in the lower court, may, upon application made within three (3) years after a finding of not guilty or the deferring or suspension of sentence, order the amount o…

If an appeal is claimed in the court or in the office of the clerk of the court appealed from, the claim and the time when made shall be noted upon the complaint, and also upon the mittimus, if any, issued upon the sentence appealed from; and if claimed at any other place, it sha…

When a district court shall sentence a person for an offense, it shall fix the amount of the recognizance which shall be required to discharge the person from imprisonment if an appeal shall be claimed, and shall note the amount upon any mittimus issued upon the sentence.

Upon a claim of appeal from the sentence of a district court, the appellant, in order to be discharged from immediate imprisonment upon the sentence, shall enter into a recognizance before one of the persons before whom an appeal may be claimed, in the sum fixed by the court, wit…

Every person claiming an appeal from a sentence of the district court who shall fail to enter into a recognizance in the court or in the office of the clerk of the court appealed from shall upon sentence immediately be committed to the penal institution as sentenced, there to rem…

The person taking a recognizance shall immediately send it to the superior court, and if the recognizance is taken before some person other than a justice or clerk of the court appealed from, notice of the taking of the recognizance shall be certified under the hand of the person…

The assignment day for appeals in criminal cases in the superior court shall be the assignment day in that court which occurs next after ten (10) days from the date of the sentence appealed from. All appeals shall be tried by the attorney general, except as otherwise provided.

Whenever any appellant who has been sentenced to pay a fine and costs only, having given recognizance, shall at any time before the assignment day of the appeal appear before the court to which the appeal was taken and plead guilty to the complaint upon which the appeal was taken…

All appeals from any court having jurisdiction of offenses against town or city ordinances shall be taken and shall proceed according to the provisions of this chapter, and in those appeals the recognizance may be taken by either of the officers or persons designated and authoriz…