People v. Guice

Miss JUSTICE McGILLICUBBY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial the defendant, Annette Guice, was convicted of criminal damage to property and criminal trespass to land. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, pars. 21 — 1(a) and 21 — 3(a).) She was sentenced to concurrent two-year terms of probation, fined s150 for each offense and assessed court costs. On appeal the defendant contends that her constitutional right to assistance of counsel at trial was .denied when the trial court refused her request for a continuance in order to obtain counsel and compelled her to proceed to…