State v. Cox

FLANIGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant Riley Cox guilty of property damage in the second degree, § 569.120,1 a class B misdemeanor, and the trial court imposed a fine of $500. Defendant appeals.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. The state’s evidence showed that defendant’s house was located north of County Road 194 in Howell County and that the road ran east and west. The “actual road bed” was 20 to 24 feet wide and the right-of-way was 60 feet. On March 24, 1986, the defendant plowed three furrows on the north half of the road, “out into the…