State v. Pitts

THIS OPINION HAS NO
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.

Robert Pitts, Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County

J. Michelle Childs, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-692

Submitted December 1, 2008 – Filed
December 15, 2008   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin, of Columbia, for
Appellant.

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

PER CURIAM:  Robert
Pitts appeals his conviction of voluntary manslaughter and thirty-year
sentence.  Pitts argues the trial court erred by accepting his guilty plea, pursuant
to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), because the State did
not have substantial evidence proving Pitts’ guilt.  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. 

WILLIAMS,
PIEPER, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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