Absentee judgment
– Litigation before the criminal courts on two levels of the Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal, which is one of the ordinary methods and a court established unlike the Court of Cassation, which in turn is a court of law and not a court of first instance. – The absentee judgment is the defendant’s failure to appear before the court, which in turn issued a verdict in absentia, often by conviction or aggravation, as the absentee verdict is preliminary. Article 120 A defendant in a felony shall always have the right to appoint a defendant and in order to hear the defense of the accused, that is, a lawyer for felonies. The date of the opposition is one week in misdemeanors and felonies from the date of the announcement of the absentee’s sentence or from the date of his arrest, as stated in Article 188 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Sentence 261 R appeal of his appeal is not any Nglas punishment in other words, is not to punish the appellant or exhibits a more severe penalty than opposition or ruling the appellant’s judgment as it is in Article 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
