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.
Smithton is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 444 at the 2000 census. Smithton's early industry was in coal mining, coke ovens, and shipping goods produced in the valley of Jacobs Creek. Stoney's Beer was brewed by the Jones Brewing Company in Smithton until 2002 when the brewing operation was moved to Pittsburgh.