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2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 5 - APPEAL AND ERROR
CHAPTER 6 - CERTIORARI AND APPEALS TO APPELLATE COURTS GENERALLY
ARTICLE 2 - APPELLATE PRACTICE
- § 5-6-30 - Purpose of article; construction
- § 5-6-31 - Entry of judgment defined
- § 5-6-32 - Manner of service of notices and other papers upon parties; waiver or acknowledgment of service
- § 5-6-33 - Right of appeal generally
- § 5-6-34 - Judgments and rulings deemed directly appealable; procedure for review of judgments, orders, or decisions not subject to direct appeal; scope of review; hearings in criminal cases involving a capital offense for which death penalty is sought
- § 5-6-35 - Cases requiring application for appeal; contents, filing, and service of application; exhibits; response by opposing party; issuance of appellate court order regarding appeal; procedure; supersedeas; jurisdiction of appeal
- § 5-6-36 - Filing of motion for new trial and motion for judgment notwithstanding verdict where appeal taken from judgment, ruling, or order
- § 5-6-37 - Filing and contents of notice of appeal; service of notice upon parties to appeal
- § 5-6-38 - Time of filing notice of appeal; cross appeal; record and transcript for cross appeal; division of costs where cross appeal filed; appeals in capital offense cases for which death penalty is sought
- § 5-6-39 - Extensions of time for filing notice of appeal, notice of cross appeal, transcript of evidence, designation of record and other similar motions
- § 5-6-40 - Enumeration of errors
- § 5-6-41 - Reporting, preparation, and disposition of transcript; correction of omissions or misstatements; preparation of transcript from recollections; filing of disallowed papers; filing of stipulations in lieu of transcript; reporting at party's expense
- § 5-6-42 - Procedure for preparation and filing of transcript of evidence and proceedings where appellant designates matter to be omitted from record on appeal; extensions of time for completion of transcript
- § 5-6-43 - Preparation and transmittal of record on appeal by court clerk; retention of copy by clerk; furnishing to Attorney General in capital cases; notification where defendant confined to jail
- § 5-6-44 - Authorization and procedure generally for filing of joint appeals, motions for new trial, and other motions; division of costs between parties
- § 5-6-45 - Operation of notice of appeal as supersedeas in criminal cases; bond; review
- § 5-6-46 - Operation of notice of appeal as supersedeas in civil cases; requirement of supersedeas bond or other form of security; fixing of amount; procedure upon no or insufficient filing; effect of bond as to liability of surety; punitive damages
- § 5-6-47 - Operation of notice of appeal and affidavit of indigence as supersedeas in civil cases; procedure for contests as to truth of affidavit
- § 5-6-48 - Grounds for dismissal of appeal; amendments; correcting or supplementing record or transcript; effect of dismissal of appeal upon cross appeal; effect of deficiencies upon consideration of appeal
- § 5-6-49 - Bills of exceptions, exceptions pendente lite, assignments of error abolished; contents of motions for new trial and for j.n.o.v
- § 5-6-50 - Procedure provided by article supersedes former appellate procedure
- § 5-6-51 - Forms
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