Cox v. State

Miller, Judge.

When Leslie Bryan Cox went to his wife’s mobile home to persuade her to return to him, she asked him to leave because he had been drinking. He splashed some beer on her clothing, and after she closed the door, he broke the light affixed to her trailer near the door, broke open her outdoor phone jack and unplugged it, and destroyed a small concrete statue she kept in her front yard. At a bench trial he was convicted of family violence battery 1 and criminal trespass. 2 He enumerates as error the sufficiency of the evidence and the State’s failure to establish that he knowingly…