The PEOPLE v. McGuire

Avery McGuire, Jr., brings this writ of error to review a judgment of the circuit court of Douglas County sentencing him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three to twenty years. The judgment was entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of burglary.

The record shows that McGuire and two companions, Clyde Connour and Rollie Meek, had been drinking for the “biggest part” of three weeks prior to August 10, 1957. They started drinking early on the morning of that day. Sometime during the afternoon, they left Connour’s house and took a taxicab to a wooded hill close to the Reed…