State v. Bowers

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.

James Bowers, Appellant.

Appeal from Beaufort County

Thomas W. Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2008-UP-214

Submitted April 1, 2008 – Filed April 4, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Chief
Attorney, Joseph L. Savitz, III, 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 I. McDuffie Stone, of Hampton, for Respondent.

PER
CURIAM:  James Bowers appeals his conviction of armed robbery
and sentence of life imprisonment.  He maintains the trial court erred by
failing to suppress the victim’s identification of him at an unduly suggestive
show-up procedure.  After a thorough
review of the record, counsel’s brief, and Bowers’ pro se 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] Bowers’ appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

ANDERSON, SHORT and THOMAS concur.

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