State v. Carr

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: November 25, 2015
• Docket: 2015-UP-539
• Status: Unpublished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

The State, Respondent,

v.

Jay C. Carr, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2014-000014

Appeal From Greenville County Edward W. Miller, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-539 Submitted October 1, 2015 – Filed November 25, 2015

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender John Harrison Strom, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General J. Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia; and Solicitor W. Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Johnston, 333 S.C. 459, 462, 510 S.E.2d 423, 425 (1999) ("[The South Carolina Supreme Court] has consistently held that a challenge to sentencing must be raised at trial, or the issue will not be preserved for appellate review."); State v. Shumate, 276 S.C. 46, 47, 275 S.E.2d 288, 288 (1981) ("A defendant's failure to timely object to or seek modification of his sentence in the trial court precludes him from presenting his objection for the first time on appeal."); State v. Nichols, 325 S.C. 111, 120, 481 S.E.2d 118, 123 (1997) ("An issue may not be raised for the first time on appeal, but must have been raised to the trial judge to be preserved for appellate review."); State v. Sawyer, 409 S.C. 475, 479 n.2, 763 S.E.2d 183, 185 n.2 (2014) ("It is well-settled that a party cannot complain of an error it induced.").

AFFIRMED.1

SHORT, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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