State v. McDonald

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.

Richard Allen
McDonald, Appellant.

Appeal From Pickens County

John C. Few, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.   2008-UP-475

Submitted August 1, 2008 – Filed August
11, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, South Carolina Commission on
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, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Robert M. Ariail,
of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  McDonald appeals his guilty plea to lewd act on a
minor and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.  McDonald argues
his guilty plea was involuntary because it did not comply with the mandates set
forth in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969).  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 McDonald’s
appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.[1]

APPEAL
DISMISSED. 

KONDUROS,
J., CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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