{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-35-105","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-35-105","heading":"Prepayment of costs; appeal without prepayment; reimbursement of successful appellants.","body":"Appeals in criminal cases shall not stay the judgment or sentence appealed from unless the appellant shall prepay all of the costs in the lower court, including the cost of preparing the record of the proceedings in the trial court and the fee prescribed in Section 25-7-3, to the clerk of the lower court. If the appellant shall make affidavit that he is unable to prepay the costs, he shall have an appeal without prepayment of costs; and his appeal shall stay the judgment appealed from. It shall be the responsibility of the county in which the conviction was taken to timely prepay all costs when an indigent appellant makes an affidavit that he is unable to make such payments.\nIt shall be the duty and obligation of the county to reimburse a successful appellant in a criminal case for court costs, including the cost of preparing the record of the proceedings in the trial court.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 35. Appeals","Article 3. Appeals to Supreme Court and Related Procedures."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"238d794e8a9787a0471c735cd97ecaa2ed07baaa095525f630993467d536b2b3","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-35-103","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-35-107","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}