(KTTS News) — A judge will announce the verdict Friday in the murder trial for former Missouri State University instructor Edward Gutting.
Gutting requested a bench trial.
He’s charged with breaking into retired professor Marc Cooper’s home in 2016 and stabbing him to death.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
In closing arguments, prosecutors told the judge that even though Gutting had schizophrenia, he knew what he was doing when he took two knives and drove to Cooper’s home.
The defense says Gutting was having a psychotic episode, and his illness prevented him from understanding what he did.
