State v. Elrod

THIS OPINION HAS NO
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.

Anthony Jay
Elrod, Appellant.

Appeal From York County

 G. Thomas Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.   2008-UP-308

Submitted June 1, 2008 – Filed June 12,
2008

DISMISSED

Deputy Chief Attorney for Capital Appeals Robert M. Dudek, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott,
Office of the Attorney General, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Kevin Scott
Brackett, of York, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Anthony
Elrod appeals from his guilty plea to escape,
contending the circuit court committed reversible error in accepting Elrod’s
plea without obtaining a waiver of his right to confrontation, thereby failing
to comply with the mandates of Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969).  After a thorough review of the record and
counsel’s 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 Elrod’s
appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.[1]

DISMISSED.

HEARN,
C.J., CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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