1. The procedure of second instance of criminal cases, also known as the procedure of appeal trial, refers to the steps, ways and methods that the people's court of second instance should follow when trying the judgment or ruling of the people's court of first instance that has not yet taken legal effect according to the appeal of the appellant or the protest of the people's procuratorate.
2. The parties to an incidental civil action and their legal representatives may appeal against the incidental civil action in the judgments and orders of the local people's courts at all levels of first instance.