David Perry appeared for a case management hearing at Ipswich Crown Court on June 27.
The trial of a 39-year-old man accused of attempting to murder another man with an axe in a Suffolk pub is due to take place in January next year.
David Perry of St Margaret’s Place, Stradishall, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder.
Police officers were called to the Bell Hotel in Clare, near Sudbury, at 8.15pm on Saturday, March 19 this year.
A man in his 30s was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge with a serious head injury.
Perry’s trial, which is expected to last five days, will take place on January 9 next year.
At a case management hearing at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday (June 27) Judge Martyn Levett directed that a further case management hearing should take place on January 4.
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