People v. McKinney

Opinion

RINGER, J. *

For reasons to be explained later on, we open this opinion by sketching the case for the defense.

On March 13, 1974, a paroled federal prisoner named George Patrick McKinney came by car in violation of his parole from Springfield, Illinois to the King’s Square Apartments in Garland, a small town surrounded by Dallas, Texas. Using his own name, but representing himself to be a relocating employee of Monsanto Chemicals, McKinney signed a lease for apartment 107-A, two weeks’ rent being paid in advance by his companion, a local resident named John Nabors, whose brother Raymond,…