WUHAN, May 22 (Xinhuanet) -- A court in Jingmen, a city central China's Hubei Province, has placed on file the case of a wrongly imprisoned man who now demands state compensation.

    "We've been informed of this by the Jingmen Intermediate People's Court with a notice," said Zhou Feng, attorney for the She Xianglin, a former security guard who was wrongly jailed for 11 years, on Sunday.

    Investigation into the case will begin soon, Zhou said

    She, 39, was convicted of murder in 1994 after his wife Zhang Zaiyu fled home because of poverty and disappointment with her married life.

    Soon after, local police found an unidentifiable female body from a reservoir near She's home and believed it to be the remainsof his wife. She was arrested for the murder.

    After several rounds of interrogation, She Xianglin was forced to confess to the crime and was sentenced to death with immediate execution at the first and second trials. The Higher People's Court of Hubei Province found clues that cast doubt on the case and ordered a retrial. His sentence was reduced to 15 years in jail.

    She's wife suddenly returned to her hometown earlier this year declared her husband's innocence. She was released from prison on April 1 and announced innocent by the court on April 13. Enditem