In the Interest of Alex T. G.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

In The Interest of Alex T. G., A Juvenile Under The Age of Seventeen,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Horry County

H. E. Bonnoitt, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2003-UP-710

Submitted September 17, 2003 – Filed December 9, 2003

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 Charles H, Richardson,
all of Columbia;  and Solicitor John Gregory Hembree, of Conway, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Appellant, Alex T.G., appeared
before the family court on charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct with
a minor, shoplifting, and contempt of court for violating a previous school
attendance order.  Appellant proceeded to trial on the criminal sexual conduct
with a minor charge and was adjudicated delinquent of assault with intent to
commit criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the first degree.  He subsequently
pled guilty on the truancy contempt charge, and the State nol prossed the shoplifting
charge.  The court ordered appellant committed to the Department of Juvenile
Justice for an indeterminate period not to exceed his twenty-first birthday
on the CSC charge and a concurrent commitment of thirty days on the contempt
of court for truancy charge.  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.

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

HUFF, STILWELL, and BEATTY, JJ., concur.