People v. Duncan

The trial court sitting without a jury adjudged defendant guilty of two counts of selling heroin in violation of section 11500, Health and Safety Code, as charged in an indictment, and found a prior misdemeanor conviction alleged therein to be true. His appeal from the judgment and order denying him a new trial is predicated on two assignments of error—abuse of discretion of' the lower court in denying his motion for continuance, and the trial judge's refusal to permit him to act as his own counsel.

In arguing that it was error to require him to proceed without allowing him a reasonable time…