State v. Jarrell

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PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State,       
Respondent,

v.

Wesley E. Jarrell,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Mccormick County

William P. Keesley, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2004-UP-405

Submitted April 21, 2004 – Filed June
22, 2004

APPEAL DISMISSED

Senior Assistant Appellate Defender Wanda P. Hagler, 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 Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Wesley E. Jarrell (Appellant)
entered an Alford [1] plea to a charge of assault and
battery of a high and aggravated nature (ABHAN).  He was sentenced to five years
in prison, which was to run consecutive to another sentence Appellant was already
serving. 

On appeal, counsel for Appellant has filed a final
brief along with a petition to be relieved as counsel.  Appellant has not filed
a pro se response.  After a thorough review of the record 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
petition to be relieved.      

APPEAL DISMISSED. [2]

GOOSLBY, HOWARD, and BEATTY, JJ., concur.

[1]   North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25
(1970).

[2]   This case is decided without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215,
SCACR.