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2008-UP-361 - State v. Bird

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.� IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Myron Bird, Appellant.


Appeal From Aiken County
�Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge


Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-361
Submitted July 1, 2008 � Filed July 10, 2008


APPEAL DISMISSED


Appellate Defender Kathrine H. Hudgins, 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, of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Myron Bird appeals his sentence for armed robbery, arguing the ten-year sentence imposed by the trial court was excessive and unconstitutionally disproportionate.� 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[1] Bird�s appeal and grant counsel�s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J, CURETON and GOOLSBY, A.J.J., concur.


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