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.
Albany is a city in Shackelford County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,921 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Shackelford County. It was named in 1873 by county clerk William Cruger after his former home of Albany, Georgia. William E. Dyess, survivor of the Bataan Death March and author of the first book thereon, was born in Albany on Aug 9, 1916.