State v. Standard

I cannot agree to the majority opinion herein. In my judgment it gives an entirely new meaning to the Relinquishment Act contrary to all previously decided cases. It puts in question the true purpose of the Act and leaves the law in a state of uncertainty and confusion as it existed prior to the decision by the Court of Greene v. Robison, 117 Tex. 516, 8 S.W.2d 655 (1928); Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. State, 121 Tex. *154138, 47 S.W.2d 265 (1938), and every later case construing the Relinquishment Act.

In order to put this case in its proper perspective, I would call attention to the fact that it…