THIS OPINION HAS NO 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.

Terrance Black, Appellant.

Appeal From Lee County
Howard P. King, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2010-UP-012
Submitted January 4, 2010 � Filed January 21, 2010�

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender LaNelle C. DuRant, 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 Cecil Kelly Jackson, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: �In August 2008, Terrance was sentenced to five years to run consecutively to the sentence he was already serving for assaulting a correctional officer.� Black's counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as counsel stating she had reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacked merit.� Black did not file a pro se brief.

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] 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.