If a defendant fails to present an appeal bond to the court within the required time deadline, the municipal court may refuse to send it to the county court.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only if the judge orders
• D. The bond must be sent anyway

Answer: (B)

The key idea is that appealing from a municipal court to the county court requires a timely appeal bond to perfect the appeal. If the bond is not filed within the required deadline, the appeal isn’t perfected, and there is no appeal to transfer to the county court. Because the transmission to the county court only happens for a properly perfected appeal, the municipal court isn’t obligated to send anything when the deadline has passed. In other words, missing the deadline ends the appellate pathway, so the statement that the court “may” still send it is not correct.