Clay v. State

OPINION

LAURA CARTER HIGLEY, Justice.

A jury found appellant, Willie Allen Clay, guilty of aggravated robbery and assessed punishment at 60 years’ confinement and a $10,000 fine. In one issue, appellant contends that the trial court’s admission into evidence of his accomplices’ statements to police violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation. Since appellant’s trial, the United States Supreme Court held in Crawford v. Washington that testimonial statements, such as the ones at issue in this case, are inadmissible. Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 68, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 1374, 158…