State v. Demontay Markeith Payne ( 2023 )

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court
The State, Petitioner,
v.
Demontay Markeith Payne, Respondent.
Appellate Case No. 2021-001097
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
Appeal From Barnwell County
Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge
Opinion No. 2023-MO-014
Heard October 4, 2023 – Filed October 18, 2023
CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY
GRANTED
Attorney General Alan Wilson, Deputy Attorney General
Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney
General Melody Jane Brown, Assistant Attorney General
William Joseph Maye, all of Columbia, and Solicitor John
William Weeks of Aiken, for Petitioner.
Breen R. Stevens, of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals'
decision in State v. Payne, 434 S.C. 121, 862 S.E.2d 81 (Ct. App. 2021). We now
dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.
DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.
BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, FEW, JAMES and HILL, JJ., concur.