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.
Fisk is a town in Butler County in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is located right along the Butler-Stoddard County line on U.S. Highway 60 along the St. Francis River. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the population was 363; a 2008 estimate, however, showed the population to be 368, an increase of 1.38%. Fisk is included within the Poplar Bluff Micropolitan Statistical Area.