State v. Muhammad

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.

Wahid Muhammad, Appellant.

Appeal from Spartanburg County

 Roger L. Couch, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-465   

Submitted October 1, 2007 – Filed October
11, 2007

APPEAL DISMISSED

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

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

PER CURIAM: 
Wahid Muhammad pled guilty to four counts of armed robbery and one count of
assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature (ABHAN).  He received
concurrent twenty-five year sentences for each armed robbery plea and two
years, consecutive, for the ABHAN plea.   On appeal, Muhammad contends the plea
judge failed to inform him adequately of the constitutional rights he waived by
pleading guilty.  Muhammad’s counsel attached a petition to be relieved,
stating she reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacks merit. 
Muhammad did not file a pro se brief.  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.

HEARN, C.J., HUFF
and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.

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