Two alleged lovers will face committal hearings for the murder of Dubbo man Alois Rez.
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At the proceedings a magistrate will decide if Raymond Isaac Roff and Sarah Renea Tarrant are to stand trial in the highest court in NSW.
Dubbo Local Court heard this week three days would be set aside for the committal hearings in December.
Roff, now aged 52, and Tarrant, 25, were arrested and charged with murder after Mr Rez disappeared from the Alfred Street house he shared with Tarrant, his partner, in July last year.
Police believe the 33-year-old father of four met with foul play and continue to search for his remains.
The matters came before Magistrate Andrew Eckhold on Wednesday.
The court first set the dates for the committal hearing of Tarrant, who faces the one charge of murder.
Originally remanded in custody after her arrest in August, she was granted NSW Supreme Court bail in January.
The 25-year-old had been excused from attending the local court this week and was represented by a solicitor from the Legal Aid Commission.
The committal hearing was listed for December 17 to 19, with the magistrate saying he had relief for then.
Tarrant's bail was continued.
Later the committal hearing for her co-accused was set for the same dates.
Roff, who has been remanded in custody since his arrest in August last year, was represented by a solicitor from the Aboriginal Legal Service.
There was no application for bail for the 52-year-old, who also faces firearm charges, and it was formally refused.
The local court heard in July from a representative of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that the brief of evidence compiled was "very voluminous".
Police facts previously tendered to the court outlined the allegations about the death of Mr Rez and the struggle the co-accused are alleged to have had as they loaded his lifeless body into the back of Roff's Great Wall four-wheel-drive.
At a committal hearing, a magistrate must consider all the evidence and determine whether or not there is a reasonable prospect that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, would convict the accused of an indictable offence, under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986.