Appealing criminal cases from district court

[(a)] Appeals upon the record shall be allowed from all final decisions and final judgments of district courts in all criminal matters. Such appeals may be made to the intermediate appellate court, subject to chapter 602, whenever the party appealing shall file notice of the party's appeal within thirty days, or such other time as may be provided by the rules of the court. [(b)] Within a reasonable time after an appeal has been perfected from a decision of a district court to the appellate court in a criminal matter, it shall be incumbent upon the district court to make a return thereof, together with all papers and exhibits filed in such case. [(c)] It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme court to transmit within a reasonable time, to the district court from whose decision the appeal was made, a statement showing the disposition of the case.