State v. Mills

Opinion

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

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The State,        Respondent,

v.

William Marion Mills,        Appellant.

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Appeal From Spartanburg County
J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge

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Unpublished Opinion No. 2003-UP-372
Submitted March 26, 2003 - Filed May 21, 2003

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APPEAL DISMISSED

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Chief Attorney Daniel T. Stacey, of Columbia, for Appellant.

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

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PER CURIAM:  William Marion Mills was convicted of first degree burglary, resisting arrest, and petit larceny.  He was sentenced to twenty years for first degree burglary, one year for resisting arrest, and thirty days for petit larceny.  Mills’s appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).  Counsel additionally submitted a petition to be relieved from representation, asserting there are no directly appealable issues of arguable merit.  Mills filed a pro se response with the Court.

After a review of the record pursuant to Anders and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss the appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved. [1]

APPEAL DISMISSED.

CURETON, ANDERSON, and HUFF, JJ., concur.

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