People v. Lyda

PRESIDING JUSTICE UNVERZAGT

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Christopher Lyda, was charged by complaint in the circuit court of Du Page County, with battery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 12 — 3(a)(1)) and resisting a police officer (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 31 — 1). Following a jury trial, defendant was found not guilty of battery, guilty of resisting a police officer, and sentenced to six months’ incarceration in the county jail. On appeal, defendant contends that it was error for the trial court to refuse defendant’s tendered jury instruction regarding the…