State v. Ballard

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PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Alvin Earle
Ballard, Jr., Appellant.

Appeal From Spartanburg County

 Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-109

Submitted February 1, 2008 – Filed
February 12, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor D. Cleary, South Carolina Commission of
Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all
of Columbia; and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III,  of Spartanburg, for
Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Alvin Earle Ballard, Jr., (Ballard) appeals his
convictions and sentences for armed robbery, assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature, and two counts of assault with intent to kill.  On appeal,
Ballard maintains the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed
verdict because the evidence was insufficient to convict him of armed robbery. 
Ballard also asserts numerous pro se arguments.  After a thorough review of the record, counsel’s brief,
and Ballard’s pro se brief 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 Ballard’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED. [1]

HUFF,
KITTREDGE, and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

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