A Jan. 9 trial date was confirmed Friday for an itinerant accused of fatally stabbing a 41-year-old Lake Elsinore man during a confrontation in a business center parking lot.
Steven James Smith, 51, was arrested last summer following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the slaying of Fabian Rodriguez.
Along with murder, Smith is charged with a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon — a knife — in the commission of a felony…