Mack v. State

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

John Willie Mack, Sr., Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001570

Appeal From Spartanburg County Robin B. Stilwell, Trial Judge J. Derham Cole, DNA Court Judge Robin B. Stilwell, PCR Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-386 Submitted October 1, 2019 – Filed December 18, 2019

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Jessica M. Saxon, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Megan Harrigan Jameson, and Assistant Attorney General Johnny Ellis James, Jr., all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 17-28-60 (2014) ("The performance of counsel pursuant to this article shall not form the basis for relief in any post-conviction relief proceeding."); State v. Jacobs, 393 S.C. 584, 587, 713 S.E.2d 621, 622 (2011) ("[A] court must abide by the plain meaning of the words of a statute.").

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and KONDUROS and HILL, JJ., concur.

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