Knox v. State

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Henry L. Knox,        Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina,        Respondent.

Appeal from Georgetown County
J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Memorandum Opinion No. 2004-MO-001
Submitted November 19, 2003 - Filed January 12, 2004

DISMISSED

Katherine Carruth Link, and S.C. Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for petitioner.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Chief, Capital and Collateral Litigation Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Allen Bullard, and Assistant Attorney General Douglas E. Leadbitter, of Columbia, for respondent.

PER CURIAM:  After careful consideration, we dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.  See Moultrie v. State, 351 S.C. 270, 569 S.E.2d 363 (2002) (no relief where there is no prejudice because charge on lesser not merited); State v. Higgins, 215 S.C. 153, 54 S.E.2d 553 (1949) (charge proper where no reference to disputed fact except in a hypothetical way).

   s/Jean H. Toal                                       C.J.
s/James E. Moore                                    J.
s/John H. Waller, Jr.                                  J.
s/E. C. Burnett, III                                       J.
s/Costa M. Pleicones                               J.