Appeals - Stay of execution on judgment.

If the defendant is adjudged guilty of usurping or intruding into, or unlawfully holding or exercising, any public office, civil or military, or any office in a corporation created by the authority of this state or unlawfully practicing any profession requiring a license, the appeal does not stay the execution of the judgment unless the party appealing shall execute bond, as prescribed in Rule 8 of the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, payable to the State of Alabama.

(Code 1896, §3438; Code 1907, §5471; Code 1923, §9950; Code 1940, T. 7, §1154.)