Reversed and remanded.
JUSTICE KARNS delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant, Robert D. Schneider, was adjudged guilty after a jury trial in the circuit court of Madison County, of criminal damage to property exceeding $300 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 21-1(a)), and sentenced to a one-year term of imprisonment. Both the trial and sentencing were conducted in absentia.
The events which culminated in defendant's conviction occurred...
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