Clay v. State of Texas

STEPHENS, Justice.

Howard Lee Clay was convicted of aggravated robbery. Punishment was assessed at fifty years’ confinement. Appellant raises four points of error, claiming: (1) that the parole law instructions (“parole instructions”) contained in the court’s charge to the jury are unconstitutional as violative of the Texas Constitution’s sepa ration of powers doctrine between the judicial and executive branches of government; (2) that the parole instructions are unconstitutional because they violate due process; (3) that the parole instructions violate the separation of powers doctrine…