per se if it injures a person in his office, business, profession, or occupation. Id. A false statement that charges a person with the commission of a crime is also libelous per se. Leyendecker & Assocs., Inc. v. Wechter, 683 S.W.2d 369, 374 (Tex.1984). The evidence in this case supports a finding of libel per se. Morrill sent letters to government officials and Baylor alleging that Cisek had forged documents, committed fraud against Baylor, never willingly paid child support, and misappropriated $35,000 from his child’s Uniform Gifts to Minors Act account. These letters were libelous per se because they accused Cisek of crimes, and injured Cisek in his profession. Id.; Knox, 992 S.W.2d at 50; Bradbury v. Scott, 788 S.W.2d 31, 38-39 (Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1989, writ denied) (<HOLDING>). Compensatory damages in defamation cases are
holding statements regarding plaintiffs unsatisfactory job performance not defamatory per se holding that the lack of a confidentiality agreement does not necessarily defeat an argument that information is a trade secret because where an employee acquires during the course of his employment a special technique or process developed by his employer he is under a duty not to use it to the detriment of his employer holding that to charge employee with dishonesty in his dealings with his employer is defamatory per se because it falls within general classification of words that affect person injuriously in his profession or occupation holding that an employee is guilty of misconduct connected with his work when he deliberately violates a company rule reasonably designed to protect the legitimate business interests of his employer or when his acts or omissions are of such a nature or so recurrent as to manifest a willful disregard of those interests and the duties and obligations he owes his employer holding that news broadcast which fell within several of the historical categories for per se defamation was not defamatory per se where plaintiffs identity was not shown on its face