Chesterfield Wilson last year was formally charged with the crime during Supreme Court arraignments yesterday.

Sean Charles Smith, of North Shore Road in Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to murdering Wilson, whose body was found in the waters off the North Shore in February of 1994.

The 24-year-old was remanded in custody until his case comes up for mention on April 3.

No bail application was tendered.

Smith, who is being represented by Mr. Archie Warner, was arrested with 23-year-old Damion Wayne Smith in September after Police received a tip in the days after a $10,000 reward was offered for information on the murder. Both men were charged in the same month.

Meanwhile, five other men were brought up on various robbery-related charges during yesterday's hearing.

Two -- John S. Anderson and Steven G. Caisey -- pleaded not guilty and guilty respectively to violently robbing a man of more than $30 on December 6, while a third, Ramon Blanchette Simmons, pleaded not guilty to two housebreaking charges, one burglary charge and one charge of receiving stolen property.

Simmons, who was represented by Miss Sonia Grant, admitted to the possession of gloves and a screwdriver.

The cases of all three men were adjourned for mention on April 3.

Wayne Smith, meanwhile, pleaded not guilty to the armed robbery on September 6 of a couple who were visiting from Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Showalter of Montreal.

The homeless 29-year-old also denied two burglary charges that were alleged to have occurred around the same time.

He was remanded into custody until April 3. No bail application was made.

And John Sinclair Anderson, of Glebe Road in Southampton, was arraigned on 13 charges that included two of stealing a car, two of breaking and entering and eight of wilful damage.

The charges -- to which Sinclair pleaded not guilty -- were laid by Police after a high-speed car chase in December.

Among the other indictments, Sinclair is accused of escaping lawful custody by climbing through a bathroom window at Police headquarters in Prospect.

He was remanded into custody until April 3.

In other arraignments, three men were formally charged with drug-related offences.

Paget businessman Herbert Alan Williams, 42, pleaded not guilty to the cultivation of cannabis, the possession of a controlled drug, conspiring to cultivate cannabis and knowingly permitting the production of a controlled drug.

His associate, 39-year-old Richard Graham Thomas of White Sands Road in Paget, pleaded not guilty the cultivation of cannabis, conspiring to cultivate cannabis, possessing a controlled drug and possessing a controlled drug that was intended for supply.

Charges were laid against the pair after Police raided Williams' Harbour Road home in January of 1994.

Both men were released on bail until April 3.

And Keith D. Lockery, who was brought up on two drug charges, pleaded guilty to the importation of cocaine and the possession of cocaine that was intended for supply.

The offences were alleged to have occurred on December 7. Lockery will be sentenced tomorrow.

Immediately after yesterday's arraignments, Chief Justice the Hon. Mr. Justice Ward sentenced Charles Howard Eugene Ebbin to two years in prison for breaking and entering last December.

Ebbin, who had pleaded guilty to the crimes, was given two years for breaking into the Bersalon spa in Pembroke on December 8, 18 months for breaking into the Parliament Street law offices of Cox and Wilkinson on December 20 and six months for the possession of burglary tools.

The sentences -- which also included psychiatric treatment for Ebbin -- are to be served concurrently.

Ebbin was represented by Mr. Mark Pettingill.