State v. Tracy Dowell

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PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d) (2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Tracy L.
Dowell, Appellant.

Appeal From Horry County

Edward B. Cottingham, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-005

Submitted January 4, 2010 – Filed January
21, 2010   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III,
South Carolina Commission, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, ,
Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney
General Donald J. Zelenka , Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, John
Gregory Hembree, 15th Circuit Solicitor's Office, of Conway, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: In
September, 2007, Tracy L. Dowell was sentenced to thirty years for murder. 
Dowell's counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as counsel,
stating that he had reviewed the record and concluded that this appeal lacks
merit.  Dowell filed a pro se brief.

After a thorough
review of the record, the pro se brief, 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[1] the appeal and grant counsel's
petition to be relieved.

APPEAL
DISMISSED

HUFF, A.C.J., GEATHERS,
J., and CURETON, A.J., concur.

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