State v. Lane

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.

Christopher Earl Lane, Appellant.

Appeal From Florence County

 James E. Brogdon, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-302

Submitted June 1, 2007 – Filed June 8,
2007   

APPEAL DISMISSED

David Craig Brown, of Florence, for Appellant

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all
of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  A Florence County jury convicted Christopher Earl Lane of murder and kidnapping.  The trial court sentenced him to fifty
years imprisonment for murder and thirty years for kidnapping to run
concurrently. Lane appeals, arguing the trial court erred in concluding by a preponderance of the evidence
that his statement was voluntarily and freely given without threat or coercion
and that it was for the jury to decide if the confession was proven beyond a
reasonable doubt to be freely, voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently given.
Lane did not file a pro se brief.  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] Lane’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

STILWELL,
SHORT, and WILLIAMS JJ., concur.

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