State v. McDonald

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Richard Allen McDonald, Appellant.

Appeal From Pickens County
John C. Few, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.   2008-UP-475
Submitted August 1, 2008 Filed August 11, 2008

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Robert M. Ariail, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  McDonald appeals his guilty plea to lewd act on a minor and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.  McDonald argues his guilty plea was involuntary because it did not comply with the mandates set forth in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969).  After a thorough review of the record and counsel's brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss McDonald's appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved.[1]

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

KONDUROS, J., CURETON, A.J., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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