State v. Kershaw

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PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

James D. Kershaw, Appellant.

Appeal From Greenville County

Edward W. Miller, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2012-UP-148

Submitted February 1, 2012 – Filed March
7, 2012 

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, of
Columbia, and James D. Kershaw, pro se, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy
Attorney General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley
W. Elliott, all of Columbia; and Solicitor W. Walter Wilkins, III, of
Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  James D. Kershaw appeals his convictions and sentences
for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and possession with
intent to distribute cocaine base within half of a mile of a school, arguing the
circuit court improperly punished him for exercising his constitutional right
to a trial by jury.  After a thorough review of the record and briefs 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 dismiss the appeal and grant counsel's
motion to be relieved.[1]

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and
LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to
Rule 215, SCACR.