Charges confirmed against Isiah Blair after alleged break-and-enter and stabbing in Oxley Vale, Tamworth

Isiah Blair, 20, fronted Tamworth Local Court last week via video link from Shortland Correctional Centre, where he remains behind bars.

Solicitor Max Dixon from the state prosecuting authority, the DPP, told the court two allegations had been confirmed against the accused and would go to the district court.

Blair has not yet been required to enter pleas to allegations of aggravated break-and-enter and wound, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Magistrate Julie Soars adjourned the matter to February next year, a couple of weeks after lawyers on both sides are set to sit down and talk through issues in the case.

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"The case conference is to assist you to decide whether to plead guilty or not guilty and to discuss any offers that may be made," she told Blair.

Blair is set to remain in custody into the new year after Aboriginal Legal Service defence solicitor Jospeh Healy made no release application, and bail was formally refused.

Police allege Blair was with a woman when they smashed a window and kicked in a door to force their way into a home on Kirkham Crescent in Oxley Vale, in the early hours of July 7.

Blair is accused of using a watering can and a steel bar to assault two residents inside the home before he allegedly grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed a 45-year-old man in both of his calves.

Oxley officers were called to the home about 1am and arrested Blair, but said the woman had already fled.

The 45-year-old man was taken to Tamworth hospital for treatment and was expected to undergo surgery for his injuries, police said at the time.

A 42-year-old woman at the home suffered a minor hand injury, according to police.

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