Cox v. State

OPINION

WARREN, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of murder and assessed punishment at life in prison.

In his first of six points of error, appellant complains that the trial court erred in admitting, over objection, exculpatory statements made by appellant while “in custody.”

The record shows that appellant called the Harris County Sheriffs Office on August 16, 1987 and reported that his infant son, Steven Cox, had been abducted from appellant’s apartment by a white woman named Linda. Several police officers from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office arrived at appellant’s apartment and…