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.
Piney Woods is an unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi. It is the site of the Piney Woods Country Life School, a historically African-American boarding school established in 1909. The community is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.