The preliminary inquiry has been set for a St. John’s woman charged with second-degree murder.

Twenty-eight-year-old Lorraine Obed stands accused in the stabbing death of 49-year-old Jimmy Corcoran on August 26 of last year.

Corcoran was found lying in the street around suppertime on Carter’s Hill in downtown St. John’s and died a short time later.

Obed, Corcoran’s estranged partner, was arrested that night and charged with murder.

She was already facing charges of assaulting the victim a year earlier and remains in custody in Clarenville.

In provincial court on Thursday, March 31, the preliminary inquiry was set for July 4 to 6, to determine if there’s enough evidence to proceed to trial.