State v. Ellison

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.

Jeremy Ellison,       
Appellant.

Appeal From Cherokee County

J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2005-UP-064

Submitted January 1, 2005 – Filed January
25, 2005

APPEAL DISMISSED

Senior Assistant Appellate Defender Wanda P. Hagler, Office
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, 
all of Columbia;  and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Jeremy Ellison appeals from
his conviction for lewd act on a minor arguing the trial court erred in allowing
the State to exercise a peremptory challenge in a discriminatory manner.  Ellison’s
counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as counsel, stating
that she had reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacks merit.  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
[1] Ellison’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J., GOOLSBY and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.

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