State v. Jones

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State,       
Respondent,

v.

Jimmy Dean Jones,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Spartanburg County

Donald W. Beatty, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.   2003-UP-317

Submitted February 20, 2003 - Filed
May 7, 2003

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia;
for Appellant.

 Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh,  Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson,
of Columbia; Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg; for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Jimmy Dean Jones was indicted by a Spartanburg
County grand jury for kidnapping and criminal domestic violence of a high and
aggravated nature.   Following a jury trial, Jones was found guilty of both
charges and sentenced to twenty years for kidnapping and ten years for criminal
domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. 

Counsel for Jones attached a petition to be relieved to the
final brief stating she had reviewed the record and found the appeal to be without
merit.  Jones filed a separate pro se brief.  After a review of
the record and counsel and Jones’s 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 [1] Jones’s appeal and
grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

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

[1] Because oral argument would not aid the court in resolving
the issues on appeal, we decide this case without
oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.