People v. Chavez

*826Opinion

LUCAS, J.

This automatic appeal follows a judgment imposing a penalty of death pursuant to the 1978 death penalty law. (Pen. Code, § 190.1 et seq.; all statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated.)

An information was filed in Tulare County Superior Court charging defendant Raymond Rudy Chavez with the following offenses occurring on August 26, 1979: the murder of Joseph Mossa (count I, § 187) and the robbery of Mossa (count II, § 211). The information alleged as a special circumstance that the murder charged in count I was committed while the defendant was engaged in…