State v. Donald Mauldin

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.

Donald J.
Mauldin, Appellant.

Appeal From Dorchester County

Diane Schafer Goodstein, Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-070

Submitted January 4, 2010 – Filed February
1, 2010  

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Katherine 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;  Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., of
Orangeburg, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Donald
J. Mauldin pled guilty to homicide by child abuse and the trial court sentenced
him to fifty years' imprisonment.  On appeal Mauldin argues the trial court
abused its discretion in sentencing him to the statutory maximum without
providing any justification or explanation.  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. 

SHORT, THOMAS, and
KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

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