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.
Ackerly is a city in Dawson and Martin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 245 at the 2000 census. The town was named for Paul Ackerly, who founded it following the division of Slaughter Ranch into farming tracts.