Tobias Coleman v. State of Mississippi

WALLER, CHIEF JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. A jury found Tobias Coleman guilty of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the head. The judge sentenced him to twenty years' imprisonment, with five years suspended. Coleman now appeals.

¶ 2. We find that the trial court committed reversible error by admitting into evidence an undated, grainy 1 Facebook image taken of the defendant Tobias Coleman holding what appears to be a handgun, years before the alleged crime, through the testimony of a witness who denied ever having seen Coleman's Facebook page or the photograph in question. We reverse and…