State v. Snowden

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Matthew Snowden, Appellant.

Appeal From Bamberg County

 Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-370

Submitted September 1, 2007 – Filed September 18, 2007 

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, 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:  Matthew Snowden (Appellant) pled guilty to third-degree burglary.  He was sentenced to four years in prison, suspended upon the service of three years probation.

On appeal, counsel for Appellant has filed a final brief along with a petition to be relieved as counsel.  Appellant has not filed a pro se response.  After a thorough review of the record 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 petition to be relieved.         

APPEAL DISMISSED.[1]

HEARN, C.J., and HUFF and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur. 

[1]  This case is decided without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.