In the Interest of Thomas Dominick S.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

In The Interest Of: Thomas Dominick S.,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Colleton County

Gerald C. Smoak, Jr., Family Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2003-UP-195

Submitted January 29, 2003 – Filed March
13, 2003

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Tara S. Taggart, of Columbia;
for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan
McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney
General Charles H. Richardson, Assistant Attorney General Deborah R. J. Shupe,
of Columbia; for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Thomas S. was convicted of three
counts of committing a lewd act on a minor.  He was sentenced to an indeterminate
sentence not to exceed his twenty-first birthday, and placed in a sex offender’s
group.  Thomas appeals, arguing the trial court should have directed a verdict
of acquittal due to insufficiency of the evidence.  Appellate counsel has filed
a final brief and a petition to be relieved.  Thomas did not file a pro
se response.

After a thorough review of the record on appeal
pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v.
Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we grant counsel’s petition
and dismiss the appeal.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J., GOOLSBY, and SHULER, JJ., concur.