State v. Thomason

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.

Melvin Thomason, Appellant.

Appeal From Greenville County

 Larry R. Patterson, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-017

Submitted January 4, 2010 – Filed January
25, 2010 

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W.
Elliott, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Robert M. Ariail, of Greenville, for
Respondent.

PER CURIAM: 
Melvin Thomason appeals his convictions and sentences for armed robbery and
assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, arguing the circuit court
erred in refusing to direct a verdict of acquittal for the armed robbery charge
because the State failed to prove a bottle of wine constituted a deadly
weapon.  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[1] Thomason's appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED. 

HUFF,
A.C.J., GEATHERS, J., and CURETON, A.J., concur. 

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