Tashieka Mair, Star Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:

A preliminary enquiry date was set in the case against a murder accused, despite the prosecution's application to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for a voluntary bill in the matter.

When the case against Dale Raymond of Mt Horeb in St James was mentioned in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court, an April 18 date was scheduled for the court to start hearing evidence in the case.

The date was set as the court has yet to receive a response from the DPP regarding a request for a voluntary bill to be granted in the matter.

The voluntary bill was requested based on the overwhelming evidence on file. The bill would allow the court to bypass a preliminary examination and go straight to trial in the Circuit Court.

Raymond is allegedly responsible for the stabbing death of 43-year-old Amos Doman, also of a Mt Horeb address, who allegedly intervened in a robbery.

Doman was killed during an altercation with the accused and another man, after he allegedly saw them robbing a man.

Allegations are that the man was at a shop in Mt Horeb where he had gone to sell liquor when two men with knives approached him and demanded money. The men allegedly took $22,000 from him.

Further allegations are that Doman, who was close by, told the men to desist from what they were doing. The men got into an argument with Doman during which it is alleged that Raymond used a knife to stab him several times.

Doman reportedly died while being treated at the Cornwall Regional Hospital.