§ 12-22-1. Right to appeal from district to superior court. Every person aggrieved by the sentence of the district court for any offense other than a violation may, within five (5) days after the sentence, appeal from the district court to the superior court for the county in which the division of the district court […]
§ 12-22-1.1. Review by supreme court — Violations. Every person aggrieved by the imposition of a fine by the district court upon the finding of a violation may, within twenty (20) days after entry of judgment imposing the fine, petition the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a writ of certiorari to […]
§ 12-22-10. Repealed.
§ 12-22-11. Failure to prosecute constitutional objection. If the party raising any certified constitutional question shall fail to appear in the supreme court and prosecute the cause in which the question is raised, the cause shall be remanded to the court from which it was certified, and the court shall then proceed in the same […]
§ 12-22-12. Additional bail on motion for new trial or appeal. Whenever a person convicted of any crime shall file a motion for a new trial or notice of his or her intentions to appeal, the superior court may require the person to give additional bail. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 476; G.L. 1909, ch. […]
§ 12-22-13. Errors in pleading. 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 complained of has […]
§ 12-22-14. Refund of fine and costs. 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 […]
§ 12-22-2. Notation as to time of claiming appeal — Transmission of claim. 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 […]
§ 12-22-3. Fixing recognizance required for discharge pending appeal. 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 […]
§ 12-22-4. Giving of recognizance for discharge pending appeal. 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 […]
§ 12-22-5. Commitment pending appeal — Discharge on payment of fine and costs by labor. 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 […]
§ 12-22-6. Forwarding and notice of recognizance to courts — Transmission of papers to superior court. 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 […]
§ 12-22-7. Assignment day in superior court — Trial by attorney general. 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 […]
§ 12-22-8. Admission of guilt before appellate court. 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 […]
§ 12-22-9. Appeals from courts having jurisdiction of ordinance violations. 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 […]
