LANTRIP v. STATE

No. 06-10-00107-CR.

336 S.W.3d 343 (2011)

William Thomas LANTRIP, Sr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Decided: February 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lew Dunn , Law Office of Lew Dunn, Longview, for appellant.

Al Davis, Marshall , TX, for appellee.

Before MORRISS, C.J., CARTER and MOSELEY, JJ.


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...

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