State v. McVay

[¶ 1.] A jury convicted Cindy McVay of furnishing an alcoholic beverage to a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The minor was her son D.S. She was acquitted of the same charges involving J.L., her son’s sixteen-year-old friend. We affirm.

PACTS

[¶ 2.] During the early evening of October 16, 1998, J.L.’s mother picked him up at his grandparents’ home and took him to the Country Bar in Alpena, South Dakota, where he met his friends D.S., A.V.O., and A.O. The four, all under the age of eighteen, played pool and then decided to drive around.

[¶ 3.] J.L. and A.0. were in one car;…