State v. Miller

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OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Joe Nathan
Miller, Appellant.

Appeal From Sumter County

Steven H. John, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2009-UP-410

Submitted September 1, 2009 – Filed
September 2, 2009  

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, 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 C. Kelly Jackson, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Joe
Nathan Miller appeals his involuntary manslaughter conviction and three-year
sentence, arguing the trial court erred in allowing a police officer to give
opinion testimony about blood splatter.  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 the appeal and
grant counsel's motion to be relieved. [1]

APPEAL
DISMISSED. 

HUFF,
THOMAS, and PIEPER, JJ., concur. 

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