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.
Dawson Springs is a city in Caldwell and Hopkins counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The population was 2,980 at the 2000 census. It is home to a 15-acre Ku Klux Klan compound featured in National Geographic "KKK: Inside American Terror."