The clerk of the trial court shall serve notice of the filing of the notice of appeal on the defendant. In addition, the clerk shall mail or send by third-party commercial carrier a copy of the notice of the filing of the notice of appeal to the prosecutor and to the defendant's counsel, if any, of record. The clerk shall also send a copy of the notice of appeal and of the docket entries to the clerk of the appellate court. The clerk shall note on each copy served the date on which the notice of appeal was filed. Failure of the clerk to serve notice does not affect the validity of the appeal.
Service is sufficient notwithstanding the death of a party or the party's counsel.
Within five days after the notice of appeal is filed with the court from which the appeal is taken, the clerk of the court, or the judge if there is no clerk, shall transmit to the clerk of the court to which the appeal is taken the notice of appeal, the verdict, the judgment, or any order of the court from which the appeal is taken, the complaint or information, and the undertaking on appeal, if any, and all documents and papers filed in the action, which shall be docketed by the clerk of the appellate court without charge to the appellant. A party appealing shall be known as appellant and an adverse party shall be known as appellee, but the title of the action shall not be changed in consequence of the appeal. An appeal to the district court when perfected, transfers the action for trial anew. An appeal from a judgment of conviction constitutes an appeal from any verdict of guilty upon which the judgment is rendered. The supervision and control of the proceedings on appeal shall be in the appellate court from the time an appeal is taken except as otherwise provided in these Rules.