Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama June 10, 2016, CR-13-1504 (Reeves v. State)

KELLUM, Judge.

Matthew Reeves appeals the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death.

In 1998, Reeves was convicted of murder made capital because it was committed during the course of a robbery in the first degree, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975.