In the Interest of Cleo B.

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

In the Interest of Cleo B., a Juvenile under the Age of
Seventeen, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2012-211509

Appeal From Richland County
James F. Fraley, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2013-UP-472
Submitted November 1, 2013 – Filed December 18, 2013

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Julie Kate Keeney, both of Columbia,
for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: State v. Rosemond, 356 S.C. 426, 429, 589 S.E.2d 757, 758 (2003) ("A
defendant is entitled to a directed verdict when the State fails to produce evidence
of the offense charged."); State v. Gibson, 390 S.C. 347, 353, 701 S.E.2d 766, 769
(Ct. App. 2010) ("When reviewing the denial of a motion for a directed verdict, an
appellate court must review the evidence, and all inferences therefrom, in the light
most favorable to the State."); In re Walter M., 386 S.C. 387, 391, 688 S.E.2d 133,
135 (Ct. App. 2009) ("We will affirm the family court's denial of a directed verdict
in a juvenile delinquency matter if it is supported by any evidence."); Rosemond,
356 S.C. at 430, 589 S.E.2d at 758 ("Strong armed robbery is defined as the
felonious or unlawful taking of money, goods, or other personal property of any
value from the person of another or in his presence by violence or by putting such
person in fear."); State v. Mattison, 388 S.C. 469, 479, 697 S.E.2d 578, 584 (2010)
("Under accomplice liability theory, a person must personally commit the crime or
be present at the scene of the crime and intentionally, or through a common design,
aid, abet, or assist in the commission of that crime through some overt act."
(internal quotation marks omitted)); id. at 480, 697 S.E.2d at 584 ("In order to be
guilty as an aider or abettor, the participant must be chargeable with knowledge of
the principal's criminal conduct."); State v. Thompson, 374 S.C. 257, 262, 647
S.E.2d 702, 705 (Ct. App. 2007) ("Mere presence and prior knowledge that a crime
was going to be committed, without more, is insufficient to constitute guilt.").

AFFIRMED.1

SHORT, WILLIAMS, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.

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