Cases

ACCEPTED 03-14-00197-CV 4929353 THIRD COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEX

*4 INTRODUCTION ¶ 1 Contested adoptions are gut-wrenching, and the longer they remain in flux, the greater the toll on the biological parents, the prospective adoptive parents, family members, and, most significantly, the child. But no one is better off for "judicial shortcuts, intent

Rule 102. Definitions. Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of these rules which are applicable to specific provisions of these rules, the following words and phrases when used in these rules shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this rule: Action.—Any action or proceeding at law or in equity. Argument.—Where required by the context, the term includes submission on briefs.

Rule 102. Definitions. Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of these rules which are applicable to specific provisions of these rules, the following words and phrases when used in these rules shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this rule: Action.—Any action or proceeding at law or in equity. Argument.—Where required by the context, the term includes submission on briefs.

ACCEPTED 03-15-00293-CV 8312780 THIRD COURT OF APPEALS

URBIGKIT, Chief Justice, dissenting. I join in the dissent with Justice Golden on the preclusive mistake in introduction of allocution evidence, and further dissent from the conviction in this case and the singular denial of constitutional rights and procedural justice for this appellant in the face of the high emotion exhibited in the community and the distasteful criminal offenses charged.1

OPINION By DAVIES, J.: The Fifth Third Union Trust Company, as Trustee under Item IV of the Last Will and Testament of Richard K. LeBlond, deceased in a petition.for instructions, has asked for “judgment and direction of the Court as to which” of two defendants, The Athenaeum of Ohio, or the Institutum Divi Thomae, is entitled to an undivided one-fifth interest in the real estate referred to in said Item

383 F.Supp. 53 (1974) Alicia MORALES, et al., v. James A. TURMAN, Individually and in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Texas Youth Council, et al. v. UNITED STATES of America, Amicus Curiae, American Orthopsychiatric Association et al., Amici Curiae. Civ. A. No. 1948. United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Sherman Division. August 30, 1974.

Southard J. expressed the opinion of the court, and declared the evidence admissible. To this opinion the counsel of the plaintiff prayed a bill of exceptions, and it was ordered. From the course which the cause subsequently took, the reporter does not think it necessary to give, the substance either of the argument of the counsel or of the remarks of the court. Evidence for the defendant.