State v. Pierre

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.

Jacques Pierre, Appellant.

Appeal From Clarendon County

 Thomas W. Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2008-UP-519

Submitted September 2, 2008 – Filed
September 9, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, 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, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W.
Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Cecil
Kelly Jackson, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Jacques Pierre appeals his conviction and sentence for
assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, arguing the trial court
erred by failing to charge the jury on the defense of accident.  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] Pierre’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

SHORT,
THOMAS, and PIEPER, JJ., concur.

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