State v. Bryant

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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.

Frankie Lee 
Bryant, III, Appellant.

Appeal From Bamberg County

 Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-574

Submitted October 1, 2008 – Filed October
14, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III, South Carolina Commission of
Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott,
Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan,
of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Frankie Bryant appeals his conviction and sentence for
voluntary manslaughter, arguing the trial court erred by giving the jury
contradictory charges on the amount of force a defendant may employ while
acting in self-defense.  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] Bryant’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

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

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