State v. Ruppe

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Billy Wayne Ruppe, Appellant.

Appeal From Cherokee County
Lee S. Alford, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-494
Submitted August 1, 2008 Filed August 18, 2008   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Joseph L. Savitz, III, of Columbia, for Appellant.

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

PER CURIAM:  Billy Wayne Ruppe pled no contest to trafficking in methamphetamine, second offense, ten to twenty eight grams, and received a negotiated sentence of five years.  Ruppe argues the trial court erred by accepting his guilty plea because the probable cause for issuing the search warrant had grown stale by the time the warrant was issued.  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  Ruppe's appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved. [1]

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

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

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