5-6-34 G
*** CODE SECTION ***  12/03/01
    
  5-6-34.
    
  (a) Appeals may be taken to the Supreme Court and the Court of
  Appeals from the following judgments and rulings of the superior
  courts, the constitutional city courts, and such other courts or
  tribunals from which appeals are authorized by the Constitution and
  laws of this state:
    
    (1) All final judgments, that is to say, where the case is no
    longer pending in the court below, except as provided in Code
    Section 5-6-35;
    
    (2) All judgments involving applications for discharge in bail
    trover and contempt cases;
    
    (3) All judgments or orders directing that an accounting be had;
    
    (4) All judgments or orders granting or refusing applications for
    receivers or for interlocutory or final injunctions;
    
    (5) All judgments or orders granting or refusing applications for
    attachment against fraudulent debtors;
    
    (5.1) Any ruling on a motion which would be dispositive if granted
    with respect to a defense that the action is barred by Code
    Section 16-11-184;
    
    (6) All judgments or orders granting or refusing to grant mandamus
    or any other extraordinary remedy, except with respect to
    temporary restraining orders;
    
    (7) All judgments or orders refusing applications for dissolution
    of corporations created by the superior courts; and
    
    (8) All judgments or orders sustaining motions to dismiss a caveat
    to the probate of a will.
    
  (b) Where the trial judge in rendering an order, decision, or
  judgment, not otherwise subject to direct appeal, certifies within
  ten days of entry thereof that the order, decision, or judgment is
  of such importance to the case that immediate review should be had,
  the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals may thereupon, in their
  respective discretions, permit an appeal to be taken from the order,
  decision, or judgment if application is made thereto within ten days
  after such certificate is granted. The application shall be in the
  nature of a petition and shall set forth the need for such an appeal
  and the issue or issues involved therein. The applicant may, at his
  or her election, include copies of such parts of the record as he or
  she deems appropriate, but no certification of such copies by the
  clerk of the trial court shall be necessary.  The application shall
  be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals
  and a copy of the application, together with a list of those parts
  of the record included with the application, shall be served upon
  the opposing party or parties in the case in the manner prescribed
  by Code Section 5-6-32, except that such service shall be perfected
  at or before the filing of the application. The opposing party or
  parties shall have ten days from the date on which the application
  is filed in which to file a response. The response may be
  accompanied by copies of the record in the same manner as is allowed
  with the application.  The Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals
  shall issue an order granting or denying such an appeal within 45
  days of the date on which the application was filed. Within ten days
  after an order is issued granting the appeal, the applicant, to
  secure a review of the issues, may file a notice of appeal as
  provided in Code Section 5-6-37. The notice of appeal shall act as a
  supersedeas as provided in Code Section 5-6-46 and the procedure
  thereafter shall be the same as in an appeal from a final judgment.
    
  (c) In criminal cases involving a capital offense for which the
  death penalty is sought, a hearing shall be held as provided in Code
  Section 17-10-35.2 to determine if there shall be a review of
  pretrial proceedings by the Supreme Court prior to a trial before a
  jury. Review of pretrial proceedings, if ordered by the trial court,
  shall be exclusively as provided by Code Section 17-10-35.1 and no
  certificate of immediate review shall be necessary.
    
  (d) Where an appeal is taken under any provision of subsection (a),
  (b), or (c) of this Code section, all judgments, rulings, or orders
  rendered in the case which are raised on appeal and which may affect
  the proceedings below shall be reviewed and determined by the
  appellate court, without regard to the appealability of the
  judgment, ruling, or order standing alone and without regard to
  whether the judgment, ruling, or order appealed from was final or
  was appealable by some other express provision of law contained in
  this Code section, or elsewhere. For purposes of review by the
  appellate court, one or more judgments, rulings, or orders by the
  trial court held to be erroneous on appeal shall not be deemed to
  have rendered all subsequent proceedings nugatory; but the appellate
  court shall in all cases review all judgments, rulings, or orders
  raised on appeal which may affect the proceedings below and which
  were rendered subsequent to the first judgment, ruling, or order
  held erroneous. Nothing in this subsection shall require the
  appellate court to pass upon questions which are rendered moot.