By Medicine Hat News on April 17, 2019.
A man accused of a late-2018 murder at a downtown apartment building had a quick provincial court appearance Tuesday.
Donald Goodwill, 24, appeared via closed-circuit TV from the Medicine Hat Remand Centre. His case was adjourned to May 7.
Counsel for Goodwill was expected to set up a preliminary inquiry Tuesday to determine if there’s sufficient evidence to proceed with trial, but Crown prosecutor Ramona Robins said they received the medical examiners report last week and defence needs time to review it.
The Crown is also working on narrowing down its number of witnesses, Robins added.
At some point after the hearing is set, Goodwill will enter a plea at the Court of Queen’s Bench.
Goodwill was found by police in Saskatchewan on Dec. 14, 2018, the day after police found a deceased missing person at a Fifth Avenue SE apartment building. Few details of the homicide are known at this time, but after his arrest police called the investigation a “complex file,” which will take a “considerable period of time” to piece together.