Tyler Edmonds v. State of Mississippi

COLEMAN, JUSTICE,

FOR THE-COURT:

¶ 1. In July 2004, an Oktibbeha County jury found Tyler Edmonds guilty of the murder of Joey Fulgham, who was his half-sister’s husband. In May 2007,. the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed Ed-monds’s conviction and remanded the case to the Oktibbeha County Circuit Court for a new trial due to evidentiary errors. At his new trial in 2008, a jury found Ed-monds not guilty,

¶ 2. The present appeal stems, from Ed-monds’s suit against the State under the Compensation to Victims of Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment statutes codified in Mississippi Code Sections…