State v. Mcalhaney

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Tonya Mcalhaney, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2014-000255

Appeal From Hampton County
Brooks P. Goldsmith, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-564
Submitted October 1, 2015 – Filed December 23, 2015

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Tiffany Lorraine Butler, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, both of
Columbia; and Solicitor Isaac McDuffie Stone, III, of
Bluffton, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: Rule 220(c), SCACR (stating an "appellate court may affirm any
ruling, order, decision or judgment upon any ground(s) appearing in the Record on
Appeal"); State v. Gaster, 349 S.C. 545, 557, 564 S.E.2d 87, 93 (2002) ("The
admission of evidence is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be
reversed absent an abuse of discretion."); State v. McDonald, 343 S.C. 319, 325,
540 S.E.2d 464, 467 (2000) ("An abuse of discretion occurs when the trial court's
ruling is based on an error of law . . . ." (alteration by court) (quoting Clark v.
Cantrell, 339 S.C. 369, 389, 529 S.E.2d 528, 539 (2000))); State v. Wilson, 345
S.C. 1, 6, 545 S.E.2d 827, 829 (2001) ("If there is any evidence to support the
admission of the bad act evidence, the trial [court's] ruling will not be disturbed on
appeal."); Anderson v. State, 354 S.C. 431, 435, 581 S.E.2d 834, 836 (2003)
("Evidence of other crimes is admissible under the res gestae theory when the other
actions are so intimately connected with the crime charged that their admission is
necessary for a full presentation of the case."); State v. Martucci, 380 S.C. 232,
258, 669 S.E.2d 598, 612 (Ct. App. 2008) ("Under [the res gestae theory], it is
important that the temporal proximity of the prior bad act be closely related to the
charged crime."); State v. McGee, 408 S.C. 278, 288, 758 S.E.2d 730, 735 (Ct.
App. 2014) (holding that when "the uncharged offense is so linked together in
point of time and circumstances with the crime charged that one cannot be fully
shown without the other . . . [and is thus] part of the res gestae of the crime
charged[,]" evidence of the uncharged act is admissible (first and second
alterations by court) (quoting State v. Adams, 322 S.C. 114, 122, 470 S.E.2d 366,
370-71 (1996), overruled on other grounds by State v. Giles, 407 S.C. 14, 754
S.E.2d 261 (2014))); State v. Pagan, 369 S.C. 201, 211, 631 S.E.2d 262, 267
(2006) ("Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is generally not admissible to
prove the defendant's guilt for the crime charged. Such evidence is, however,
admissible to show motive, identity, the existence of a common scheme or plan,
the absence of mistake or accident or intent."); State v. Benjamin, 345 S.C. 470,
479-80, 549 S.E.2d 258, 263 (2001) (holding evidence of a defendant's subsequent
bad act was admissible to show the defendant's intent during the commission of the
charged crime).

AFFIRMED.1

FEW, C.J., and KONDUROS and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

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