MACON, Ga. — Frank Tolbert spent three years in the Bibb County jail for a crime that a judge said it didn’t look like he even committed, court records show.
Tolbert was arrested in 2019 on murder charges, with investigators claiming he killed 23-year-old Eric Broomfield, who was found dead in a car off Napier Avenue.
But after spending three years in jail, Bibb County Superior Court Judge Howard Simms released Tolbert in December 2023, saying no evidence was found that Tolbert committed the crime…