The case against Wesley Veit, charged with first degree murder in the March 28 death of his wife Heidi Veit outside of Wilkie, will return to court June 19.
Counsel for the Crown and defence spoke to the matters before Judge Bruce Bauer in provincial court Monday morning, May 1, in North Battleford.
Veit appeared alongside his lawyer Leslie Sullivan via closed-circuit television from Saskatoon, where he remains in custody. Sullivan indicated she has had discussions with Crown counsel on the case.
However, there wasn’t much more for counsel to add. The judge agreed to counsel’s request for an adjournment.
Veit also is charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle as well as theft under $5000. He was scheduled to go to trial on those matters in Unity in June.
Counsel has indicated they will vacate that court date. Instead, all the charges Veit faces will come back to North Battleford provincial court June 19 at 11 a.m., to be spoken to.
That appearance is once again to be by closed-circuit television.
The victim, Heidi Veit, had been an educational assistant at the McLurg High School in Wilkie at the time of the incident, which took place about five kilometres northeast of Wilkie. Veit, her estranged husband, was taken into custody two days later without incident.
At his previous court appearance in early April, Judge Lloyd Deshaye ordered Veit to undergo a mental assessment in order to determine his fitness to stand trial.
