State v. Methelus

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.

Andre Methelus, Appellant.

Appeal from Edgefield County

Jackson V. Gregory,
Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-176

Submitted March 3, 2008 – Filed March 13, 2008   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant
Appellate Defender Aileen P. Clare, 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 Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for Respondent.

PER
CURIAM:  Andre Methelus appeals his convictions of trafficking
cocaine and trafficking crack cocaine, as well as his concurrent sentence of
twelve-years imprisonment.  He maintains the trial court erred in denying his
motion for a directed verdict.  After a
thorough review of the record, counsel’s brief, and Methelus’s 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] Methelus’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

HEARN,
C.J., PIEPER, J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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