Doyle v. Doyle

STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding the wife (plaintiff) a divorce and custody of the minor child. The parties will be referred to here as they were in the trial court.

Defendant’s three points of error are all based upon the premise that it was error for the trial court to hear this case in defendant’s absence. Defendant was an inmate in the Texas Department of Corrections at the time of trial. His motion for a continuance on that ground was denied, as was his motion that the trial judge issue a bench warrant for him to appear.

Defendant…