State v. Mills

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.

Ronnie Mills, Appellant.

Appeal From Florence County

Honorable Michael G. Nettles, Circuit
Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-101

Submitted February 1, 2008 – Filed
February 12, 2008  

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender LaNelle C. DuRant, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Senior
Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and
Solicitor Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Ronnie
Mills (Appellant) pled guilty to second-degree burglary and strong armed
robbery.  He was sentenced to concurrent terms of fifteen years in prison for
each offense.  On appeal, Appellant argues his plea was not voluntarily and
intelligently given because, although the plea judge advised him that
second-degree burglary was a violent offense, the judge did not advise him that
it “is a serious charge and therefore a strike under the three strikes law.” 
We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b)(2), SCACR and the following authorities:  State v. Dunbar,
356 S.C. 138, 142, 587 S.E.2d 691, 693-94 (2003) (“In order for an issue
to be preserved for appellate review, it
must have been raised to
and ruled upon by the trial
judge.  Issues not raised and ruled upon in the trial
court will not be considered on appeal.”); State v. McKinney, 278 S.C. 107, 108, 292 S.E.2d 598, 599 (1982)
(“Absent timely objection at a plea proceeding, the unknowing and involuntary
nature of a guilty plea can only be attacked through the more appropriate
channel of Post-Conviction Relief.”). 

AFFIRMED.[1]

HUFF,
KITTREDGE, and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

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