Huckaby v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from her conviction for obscene and harassing telephone calls.

1. Defendant contends she was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when the court refused to grant a continuance so that her newly retained lawyer might prepare. Her former lawyer had withdrawn at 9:00 a.m. and she had engaged the new one at 11:00. The case went to trial at 1:00 p.m. However, it also appears that the charge against defendant was more than a year old and that during this period she had engaged four lawyers, all of whom "withdrew” on the day set for trial.

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