State v. Gilliard

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EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH
CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The
State,        Respondent,

v.

Phillip M. Gilliard,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Charleston County

R. Markley Dennis, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 
2005-UP-480

Submitted August 1, 2005 – Filed August 8, 2005

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender
Tara S. Taggart, Office 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 Ralph E. Hoisington, of
Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Appellant,
Phillip M. Gilliard, was indicted for and convicted of burglary in the first
degree.  The trial judge sentenced Gilliard to twenty-four years in
prison.  Gilliard’s counsel attached to the brief a petition to be
relieved as counsel, stating that she had reviewed the record and concluded this
appeal lacks merit.  Gilliard did not file a separate pro se
brief.  We dismiss pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738
(1967) and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991). 
Counsel’s petition to be relieved is granted.1

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

ANDERSON, HUFF, and WILLIAMS, JJ.,
concur.

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