People v. Ray

ASHBURN, J.—

James Lee Moore, Christine Sandra Ray, Barbara Ruth Bush and Johnnie Stigall, Jr., were convicted of felony murder committed in the course of an attempted robbery, and each of them was sentenced to life imprisonment. Moore and Ray appeal. The four defendants were tried together and the appeals of Moore and Ray are in this court upon a single transcript.

Moore was represented at the trial by the public defender who, pursuant to the discretion vested in him by section 27706, subdivision (a), Government Code, elected not to prosecute an appeal in his behalf. Defendant Ray had private…