State v. Bennett

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.

Michael P.
Bennett, Appellant.

Appeal From Horry County

 J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-479

Submitted August 1, 2008 – Filed August
11, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, South Carolina Commission on
Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott,
Office of the Attorney General, all of Columbia; and Solicitor John Gregory
Hembree, of Conway, for Respondent.

PER
CURIAM:  Michael Bennett appeals his guilty plea to unlawful conduct towards a child and sentence of thirty
months imprisonment.  He maintains his
guilty plea failed to conform with the mandates set forth in Boykin v.
Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969).  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 the
appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.[1]

APPEAL DISMISSED.

KONDUROS, J.,
CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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