A deposit with the clerk of the court from which an appeal is taken of a sum of money sufficient to cover the costs accrued, and to accrue, the amount of which to be determined by the judge, may be made by the appellant with the posting of his appearance bond, and shall serve to stay execution of sentence until the clerk shall compile the trial court costs and file the cost bill required in criminal cases; and any security for jail fees which the sheriff shall certify to the clerk to be satisfactory to him, shall be sufficient, and the sheriff shall not thereafter be entitled to look to the county for such jail fees.Codes, 1880, § 2336; 1892, § 62; 1906, § 63; Hemingway's 1917, § 39; 1930, § 42; 1942, § 1176; Laws, 1978, ch. 335, § 37, eff. 7/1/1978.
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