James v. Texas Department of Human Services

OPINION

BLEIL, Justice.

Carrie James appeals from a judgment terminating her parental rights to two of her children, a boy and a girl, aged nine and eleven, respectively, at the time of trial. The trial also resulted in the termination of the parental rights of Sherman Goodson, the children’s father. 1 The significant issues material to our decision concern preliminary trial court rulings, eviden-tiary rulings, the sufficiency of the evidence, and the jury instructions. We conclude that the trial court erred in several evidentiary rulings which normally would dictate a reversal of the judgment.…