an Election Day trial for a string of other offences.

Homeless John Jeffries and co-defendant Arnett Dill are facing 13 charges -- including stealing and arson during a crime binge last December and January.

Both had given unanimous not guilty pleas until Jeffries changed his mind on three counts during the monthly arraignments session in Supreme Court on Monday.

He admitted breaking into the Regiment offices, SKB Coating and Trimingham Brothers.

But Jeffries and Dill, both of no fixed abode, will stand trial next Monday after a brief mention hearing back in Supreme Court on Friday.

Former Government Senator Llewellyn Peniston, already appealing a conviction for perjury, was brought back into court to be re-charged after the jury in his fraud case was hung on four counts.

Crown Counsel Brian Calhoun asked for the case to be held back until April to allow Peniston's appeal to go ahead.

And Chief Justice Austin Ward listed the matter to start as soon as the appeal had finished.

Suspected cocaine smugglers Richard Ricardo Steede and Lang Onley, both from Hamilton Parish, were remanded on $10,000 bail to reappear in court at the January arraignments session.

Steede will also face five separate charges of possessing cocaine and cannabis intended for supply, obstructing a policewoman and using offensive words in public. He pleaded not guilty.

Accused robber Ronald Raymond Wilson, suspected in the Harrington Hundreds machete raid on June 29, will also reappear before Mr. Justice Ward at the January 4 hearing.

Wilson, 25, of Friswells Road, Devonshire, was remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to four charges, including attempted robbery, GBH, assault with intent to rob and disguising his face with a mask.

Two alleged sex offenders -- a 19-year-old Sandys man accused of sexually assaulting a girl aged between 14 and 16, and a 38-year-old Hamilton Parish man accused of serious sexual assault, deprivation of liberty and stalking -- will also appear again at the January 4 arraignments after pleading not guilty.

Twenty-seven-year-old Southampton Princess worker Delicia Marie Tucker, of Rambling Lane in Pembroke, denied six charges of importing and possessing cocaine, cannabis resin and heroin.

She was granted bail to reappear at the January arraignments.

Bail was also extended for drugs defendant Dean Willis Pitt, 31, of Watlington Lane, Devonshire.

He denied four counts of handling and possessing cannabis intended for supply.