Guinan v. State

SIMON, Judge.

Movant, Frank J. Guinan, appeals the denial of his Rule 27.26 motion to vacate judgment and sentence for capital murder in the Circuit Court of Franklin County. A jury found movant guilty of killing a fellow inmate, John McBroom, at the Missouri State Penitentiary. Guinan and another inmate, Richard Zeitvogel, (State v. Zeitvogel, 655 S.W.2d 678 (Mo.App.1983)) entered the cell of the victim and stabbed the victim repeatedly with “knives” made out of ¾⅛ of a pair of scissors. Movant was sentenced to death on January 15, 1982. Movant’s conviction and sentence were affirmed on…