Taylor v. State

in which JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ. joined.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the first-degree felony offense of aggravated robbery. The indictment also alleged a prior felony conviction for enhancement purposes. The jury charge included statutorily required parole instructions, which set out parole eligibility rules for certain types of offenders.1 The prosecutor addressed these parole instructions in his closing argument.2 At issue here is *358whether it was improper for him to explain how these parole eligibility rules applied to certain sentences, and also…