Jury selection began Tuesday for a trial into a stabbing death outside the Village Mall pub that happened almost three years ago.
Twelve jurors and two alternates were to be chosen from about 150 potential jurors who gathered at Red Deer provincial courthouse Tuesday morning.
Daniel Boyd Sawyer, 33, is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Alan Beach, 31, during a brawl outside the pub in November 2015.
Sawyer turned himself in nine days after the stabbing and has been in custody ever since.
The three-week trial before Justice Bill Hopkins will start Thursday and continue until Dec. 7 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.