Cox sentenced to four years for Aggravated Battery

[April 06, 2017]  On March 28, 2017, Associate Judge William Workman accepted a fully negotiated plea agreement sentencing Charles S. Cox to 4 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections with a period of 1 year of mandatory supervised release (formerly known as parole) for the offense of Aggravated Battery, a class 3 felony.

The case stems from a July 6, 2016 incident at the Logan County Jail. Cox was an inmate at the Logan County Jail awaiting trial on unrelated charges. While an inmate, Cox struck another inmate, Stephen Nelson. Nelson suffered a fractured bone in his face elevating the charge to Aggravated Battery based upon great bodily harm. The 4 year prison sentence for Cox will be served consecutively to his two other cases: a 4 year prison sentence on Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance and a 6 year prison sentence on Home Invasion.

[Jonathan C. Wright
Logan County State’s Attorney]