Jones v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: April 6, 2016
• Docket: 2016-UP-171
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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

Nakia Jones, Appellant,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-000602

Appeal From Richland County Robert E. Hood, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-171 Submitted March 1, 2016 – Filed April 6, 2016

AFFIRMED

Nakia Jones, pro se.

Assistant Attorney General James Clayton Mitchell, III, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 17-27-20(B) (2014) ("[The Uniform Post- Conviction Procedure Act (the Act)] takes the place of all other common law, statutory or other remedies heretofore available for challenging the validity of the conviction or sentence."); Simpson v. State, 329 S.C. 43, 46, 495 S.E.2d 429, 431 (1998) ("[A] matter which is cognizable under the Act may not be raised by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus before the circuit or other lower courts."); Gibson v. State, 329 S.C. 37, 42, 495 S.E.2d 426, 428 (1998) ("[A] petitioner must allege sufficient facts to show why other remedies, such as [post-conviction relief], are unavailable or inadequate."); S.C. Code Ann. § 15-53-70 (2005) ("The court may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree when such judgment or decree, if rendered or entered, would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the proceeding.").

AFFIRMED.1

SHORT, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

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