State v. Jones ( 2003 )

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Jimmy Dean Jones, Appellant.

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Appeal From Spartanburg County
Donald W. Beatty, Circuit Court Judge

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Unpublished Opinion No.   2003-UP-317
Submitted February 20, 2003 - Filed May 7, 2003

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APPEAL DISMISSED

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Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia; for Appellant.

 Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh,  Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson, of Columbia; Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg; for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Jimmy Dean Jones was indicted by a Spartanburg County grand jury for kidnapping and criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.   Following a jury trial, Jones was found guilty of both charges and sentenced to twenty years for kidnapping and ten years for criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. 

Counsel for Jones attached a petition to be relieved to the final brief stating she had reviewed the record and found the appeal to be without merit.  Jones filed a separate pro se brief.  After a review of the record and counsel and Jones’s briefs 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] Jones’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J., CURETON and GOOLSBY, JJ., concur.

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^[1] Because oral argument would not aid the court in resolving the issues on appeal, we decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.