Opinion
2018-UP-107
06-13-2018
Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, Assistant Attorney General Susan Ranee Saunders and Assistant Attorney General William Frederick Schumacher, IV, all of Columbia; and Solicitor David Matthew Stumbo, of Greenwood, for Respondent.
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.
Submitted February 1, 2018
Appeal From Abbeville County Alison Renee Lee, Circuit Court Judge
Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, Assistant Attorney General Susan Ranee Saunders and Assistant Attorney General William Frederick Schumacher, IV, all of Columbia; and Solicitor David Matthew Stumbo, of Greenwood, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM:
Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Gordon, 414 S.C. 94, 98, 777 S.E.2d 376, 378 (2015) ("In criminal cases, the appellate court sits to review errors of law only."); State v. Weston, 367 S.C. 279, 288, 625 S.E.2d 641, 646 (2006) ("The improper admission of hearsay is reversible error only when the admission causes prejudice."); State v. Jennings, 394 S.C. 473, 478716 S.E.2d 91, 93-94 (2011) ("Improperly admitted hearsay which is merely cumulative to other evidence may be viewed as harmless."); State v. Bryant, 369 S.C. 511, 518, 633 S.E.2d 152, 156 (2006) ("Error is harmless where it could not reasonably have affected the result of the trial.").
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
HUFF, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.