Carl Shane Hames' case adjourned for charges in Tamworth court after allegedly wielding machete and demanding cash

Carl Shane Hames, 43, remains behind bars and did not appear in Tamworth Local Court earlier this week.

The state prosecuting authority, the DPP, asked for a short adjournment for the Crown to consider which allegations to press ahead with against Hames, after the brief of evidence was served by police.

"No application for bail today," magistrate Julie Soars noted.

The two-week adjournment was not opposed by Hames' Aboriginal Legal Service defence solicitor.

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Police claim a 72-year-old man arrived at a Bent Street home in Tamworth on the afternoon of June 19 and met with a pair he did not know.

The police case is that Hames threatened the elderly man and demanded cash, which was allegedly handed over before Hames fled the scene.

The 72-year-old man was inside an Edinburgh Street home less than a week later when police allege Hames emerged from a room wielding a machete while demanding money, and slashed the older man's hand.

Hames is accused of stealing the man's bank card and withdrawing cash before the older man was driven to hospital.

He has been in custody since Oxley police arrested him in early July.

No pleas have been entered for charges of take or detain in company with intent to gain advantage, occasioning actual bodily harm; demand property with menace with intent to steal; and reckless wounding in company.

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