State v. Battle

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.

Damian Battle, Appellant.

Appeal from Aiken County

 Doyet A. Early, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-233

Submitted April 1, 2008 – Filed April 15,
2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W.
Elliott, all of the Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solcitor Barbara
R. Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: 
Damian Battle was convicted after a jury trial of distribution of
marijuana and was sentenced to fifty-four months in prison. On appeal, Battle alleges the trial court erred by allowing the State
to improperly bolster a witness’s testimony.  Battle 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 the appeal and grant counsel’s motion to
be relieved.[1]

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

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

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