Lantrip v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Although doctors had told seventy-three-year-old William Thomas Lantrip, Sr., not to drink, because drinking was “interactive” with a decades-old brain injury, Lantrip regularly consumed much alcohol. 1 On Good Friday, 2009, after drinking at least half a case of beer, Lantrip shot his neighbor Kenny Gordon in the back, a wound ultimately proving fatal. 2 From the resulting conviction and life sentence for murder, Lantrip appeals. We affirm 3 the trial court’s judgment because (1) Lantrip did not prove he was insane; (2) Lantrip was not entitled to…