State v. McIlwain

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
The State, Respondent,
v.
Quanell Marquan McIlwain, Appellant.
Appellate Case No. 2014-002539
Appeal From Lancaster County
Brian M. Gibbons, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-502
Submitted October 1, 2016 – Filed December 7, 2016
AFFIRMED
Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for
Appellant.
Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy
Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant
Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of
Columbia; and Solicitor Randy E. Newman, Jr., of
Lancaster, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: State v. Gaster, 349 S.C. 545, 557, 564 S.E.2d 87, 93 (2002) ("The
admission of evidence is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be
reversed absent an abuse of discretion."); State v. Walker, 366 S.C. 643, 656, 623
S.E.2d 122, 129 (Ct. App. 2005) ("An abuse of discretion occurs when a trial
court's decision is unsupported by the evidence or controlled by an error of law.");
State v. Wilson, 345 S.C. 1, 6, 545 S.E.2d 827, 829 (2001) ("If there is any
evidence to support the admission of the bad act evidence, the trial [court's] ruling
will not be disturbed on appeal."); Anderson v. State, 354 S.C. 431, 435, 581
S.E.2d 834, 836 (2003) ("Evidence of other crimes is admissible under the res
gestae theory when the other actions are so intimately connected with the crime
charged that their admission is necessary for a full presentation of the case."); State
v. Martucci, 380 S.C. 232, 258, 669 S.E.2d 598, 612 (Ct. App. 2008) ("Under [the
res gestae] theory, it is important that the temporal proximity of the prior bad act
be closely related to the charged crime."); State v. McGee, 408 S.C. 278, 288, 758
S.E.2d 730, 735 (Ct. App. 2014) (providing an uncharged offense is part of the res
gestae of the crime charged when the "uncharged offense is so linked together in
point of time and circumstances with the crime charged that one cannot be fully
shown without proving the other" (quoting State v. Adams, 322 S.C. 114, 122, 470
S.E.2d 366, 371 (1996), overruled on other grounds by State v. Giles, 407 S.C. 14,
754 S.E.2d 261 (2014)); State v. Wood, 362 S.C. 520, 529, 608 S.E.2d 435, 440
(Ct. App. 2004) (declining to reach the Rule 404(b), SCRE, argument because the
res gestae analysis was dispositive); State v. Dennis, 402 S.C. 627, 636, 742 S.E.2d
21, 26 (Ct. App. 2013) ("[E]vidence considered for admission under the res gestae
theory must satisfy the requirements of Rule 403 of the South Carolina Rules of
Evidence."); State v. Braxton, 343 S.C. 629, 634, 541 S.E.2d 833, 836 (2001)
("[T]estimony stating [witness] knew appellant possessed a nine millimeter pistol
was relevant as it tended to identify appellant as the possessor of the murder
weapon, a nine millimeter pistol. The identity of the user of the murder weapon
was the critical issue at trial. Accordingly, the probative value of this portion of
[witness]'s testimony substantially outweighed any claim of undue prejudice.")
(citation omitted).
AFFIRMED.1
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.
1
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.