IAN Francis Jamieson, 64, will stand trial in the Supreme Court in Bendigo in March next year charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of three people in Wedderburn last year.

The trial is likely to take place towards the end of March, 2016.

Jamieson was charged with the murder of Greg Holmes, 48, and Holmes’ mother Mary Lockhart, 75, and stepfather Peter Lockhart, 78, on October 22.

He offered a not guilty plea to the murder of Mr Holmes at a committal hearing in Bendigo last month, but no plea for the murders of Mr and Mrs Lockhart.

The hearing heard Mr Holmes died of multiple stab and slash wounds, some to the back and chest, after a struggle at a property south of Wedderburn.

The court heard Jamieson maintains Mr Holmes attacked him before the struggle that led to the alleged stabbing.

A forensic pathologist outlined at least 20 individual wounds to Mr Holmes.

It is alleged Jamieson then traveled to a nearby property where he shot and killed Mr and Mrs Lockhart.