State v. James B. Munn

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.

James Bryson Munn, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000044

Appeal From Charleston County
Roger M. Young, Sr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-394
Submitted September 1, 2017 – Filed October 18, 2017

AFFIRMED

William G. Yarborough, III, of William G. Yarborough
III, Attorney at Law, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Jennifer Ellis Roberts, both of
Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson, of
Charleston, all for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: State v. Hicks, 377 S.C. 322, 325, 659 S.E.2d 499, 500 (Ct. App. 2008)
("A judge or other sentencing authority is to be accorded very wide discretion in
determining an appropriate sentence, and must be permitted to consider any and all
information that reasonably might bear on the proper sentence for the particular
defendant, given the crime committed."); Clark v. Cantrell, 339 S.C. 369, 389, 529
S.E.2d 528, 539 (2000) ("An abuse of discretion occurs when the trial court's
ruling is based on an error of law or, when grounded in factual conclusions, is
without evidentiary support."); State v. Brewington, 267 S.C. 97, 103, 226 S.E.2d
249, 251 (1976) ("The sentence imposed upon a codefendant for the same offense
and upon others for similar offenses are among a wide variety of factors which
may be properly considered in determining a proper punishment."); State v.
Charping, 333 S.C. 124, 131, 508 S.E.2d 851, 855 (1998) ("Brewington does not
stand for the proposition that trial courts are required to consider the sentences
[imposed upon] codefendants [and others for similar offenses]."); State v. Fletcher,
322 S.C. 256, 260, 471 S.E.2d 702, 704 (Ct. App. 1996) ("In a criminal
prosecution, . . . punishment of the offender is recognized as a proper motivation
for a sentencing trial [court] . . . ."); State v. Connally, 227 S.C. 507, 510, 88
S.E.2d 591, 593 (1955) ([An appellate court] has no jurisdiction to disturb, because
of alleged excessiveness, a sentence which is within the limits prescribed by
statute, unless . . . the sentence is the result of partiality, prejudice, oppression, or
corrupt motive.").

AFFIRMED.1

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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