Tyler v. State

I join in the majority opinion which upholds the constitutionality of Family Code, § 54.04(b), V.T.C.A., against the attack made — that the minor was denied his constitutionally protected right of confrontation by witnesses and his concomitant right of cross-examination of such witnesses.

The narrow question of constitutional law presented is new in the sense that it arises under a new statute; it is not new in the context of being a new question of constitutional right. The Family Code so recently adopted has brought to this field of the law the well-known bifurcated trial. In the…