The trial of a Lamar County woman accused of killing a Vicksburg college student in 2002 has been reset for March 15 next year.

Jennifer Wardle, 28, 126 Old Highway 49, Brooklyn, was indicted more than five years after the death of James Neal May, whose death at first ruled a suicide.

Trial was originally set for May 24 and was postponed because of medical problems Wardle’s attorney, James K. Dukes of Hattiesburg, was suffering.

Circuit Judge R.I. Pritchard III set the new date and will preside.

May, who was 22 and a senior at the University of Southern Mississippi, was found shot May 1, 2002. Wardle was indicted by the Lamar County grand jury Oct. 26, 2007, and since her arrest on Nov. 6, 2007, has been out of jail on a $100,000 bond, a Lamar County Circuit Court spokesman said in March. Though the case is being heard in Lamar County, the state attorney general’s office is prosecuting. Reasons for that and the delay in indicting Wardle have not been made public.

May was a 1998 graduate of Warren Central and attended First Baptist Church.