LIMA, OH (WLIO) - A Lima man that was found not guilty in 2020 for murder will be granted a retrial.
Kenneth Cobb had his appeal for a retrial granted by the Ohio Supreme Court, and now has a pretrial set for December 5th and a jury trial set for January 9th of 2023. The defendant's appeal, which was filed back in 2020, states that certain language was not withheld during the trial. Cobb was previously found not guilty of a 2019 murder but was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for felonious assault with a firearm and having a weapon under disability.
According to police, in January of 2019, Cobb was gambling at his Saint Johns Avenue home with Branson Tucker and several others. After a disagreement and scuffle, Cobb fatally shot Tucker. A jury found that the murder did not apply because of self-defense after Tucker and others tried robbing the defendant. Cobb is currently out on bond.
