Section 37
SEC. 37. Procedure on appeal from the municipal court to Court of First Instance.-An appeal shall lie to the Court of First Instance next to be within the city, in all cases where fine or imprisonment, or both, is imposed b the municipal court. The party desiring to appeal shall before four o'clock post meridian of the day after the ren- dition and entry of the judgment by the municipal court, file with the clerk of the court a written statement that he appeals to the Court of First Instance. The filing of such statement shall perfect the appeal. The judge of the court from whose decision appeal is taken shall, within five days after the appeal is taken, transmit to the clew the Court of First Instance a certified copy of the records of proceedings and all the original papers and process in the case, and the clerk of Court of First Instance docket the appeal in that court. A perfected appeal shall operate to vacate the judgment of the municipal court, and the action, when duly entered in the Court of First Instance, shall stand for trial de novo upon its merits in accordance with the regular procedure in that court, as though the same had never been tried and had been originally there commenced. Pending an appeal, the defendant shall remain in custody unless released in the discretion of the judge of the municipal court or of the Court of First Instance, upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the rules and regulation now or hereafter in force, to await the judgment of the appellate court. Appeals in civil cases shall be governed by the ordinary procedure establishment by law for appeals from decisions of justice of the peace courts.