Piotrowski v. Minns

in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, and HIGHTOWER, DOGGETT, GAMMAGE and SPECTOR, Justices, join.

The principal issue in this ease is whether the absence from the appellate record of the statement of facts from two ancillary pretrial hearings mandates a new trial. The court of appeals reversed and remanded the trial court’s judgment pursuant to Rule 50(e) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. We reverse the judgment of the court of appeals, and we remand to that court for consideration of the respondent’s points of error.

In 1980 assailants shot Barbra Piotrowski, paralyzing her from the…