State v. McNeal

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Eric Christopher McNeal, Appellant.

Appeal From Lexington County

 Marc H. Westbrook, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2004-UP-091

Submitted December 23, 2003 – Filed
February 13, 2004

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Tara S. Taggart, South Carolina
Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry D. McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka,
all of Columbia; and Solicitor Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Eric Christopher McNeal (Appellant)
pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, possession of a firearm or knife during
the commission of a violent crime, and possession of a pistol by a person under
the age of twenty-one.  Appellant was sentenced to a total of thirty years in
prison. 

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]

GOOSLBY, HOWARD, and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.

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