State v. Snowdon

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

William Rhett Snowdon, Petitioner.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Pickens County
 Larry R. Patterson, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 26580
Heard January 6, 2009 – Filed January 12, 2009  

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Chief Appellate Defender Joseph L. Savitz, III, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Deborah R. J. Shupe, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Robert Mills Ariail, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ opinion in State v. Snowdon, 371 S.C. 331, 638 S.E.2d 91 (Ct. App. 2006).  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., WALLER, PLEICONES, BEATTY, JJ., and Acting Justice E. C. Burnett, III, concur.