Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
Shobonier is an unincorporated community, located on U.S. Route 51, about 10 miles south of Vandalia, Illinois in Fayette County, Illinois. The population was 837 at the 2000 census.