Phillips v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Corelanius Phillips, appeals his capital murder conviction and sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. His argument on appeal concerns essentially one issue: whether he established his affirmative defense of insanity based on an intermittent explosive disorder so as to render the State’s evidence of capital murder insubstantial and so as to warrant a directed verdict of acquittal. We affirm the conviction and judgment.

During the morning of October 13,1991, the appellant went to the home of Christine Rainey in Warren where Angela…