People v. Reeves

-This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, suhd. (b)) from a judgment imposing the death penalty upon conviction of murder in the first degree.

Defendant relies primarily upon asserted inadequacy of the representation provided by his trial counsel, but we conclude that this and the other contentions of defendant are without merit and that the judgment must be affirmed.

When the record is viewed in the light most favorable to the judgment, as it must be, the following facts appear; on the morning of March 24, 1965, two employees of the Standard Oil Company, Floyd Parsons and Paul Pugh,…