Salas v. State

OPINION

KENNEDY, Justice.

After rejecting his self-defense claim, a jury convicted appellant (a juvenile certified as an adult for trial) of murder. He was sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment.

In his first of four points of error, appellant assigns error to the trial court’s instruction to the jury on parole law.

The trial court instructed the jury in accordance with Tex.Code Crim.Proc.Ann. art. 37.07, § 4(a) (Vernon Supp.1988). That statute provides certain language which trial courts are directed to include in punishment charges which informs the jury of the effect of the parole law on…