Opinion
Unpublished Opinion No. 2011-UP-454
10-11-2011
The State, Respondent, v. Mitchell Douglas Watts, Appellant.
Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor W. Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, 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.
Appeal From Greenville County
John C. Few, Circuit Court Judge
AFFIRMED
Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor W. Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM : Mitchell Douglas Watts appeals his conviction for trafficking cocaine base (crack cocaine), arguing the trial court erred in allowing the State to elicit opinion testimony from a police officer, who was not an expert witness, identifying the drugs taken into evidence as crack cocaine. We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Johnson, 324 S.C. 38, 41, 476 S.E.2d 681, 682 (1996) (finding an issue not preserved for review when appellant made no contemporaneous objection at trial to the testimony claimed to be erroneously admitted and did not raise the issue at any point during trial); State v. Varvil, 338 S.C. 335, 339, 526 S.E.2d 248, 250 (Ct. App. 2000) (finding that constitutional arguments not raised to the trial court were not preserved for appellate review and were deemed waived on appeal).
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
AFFIRMED.
SHORT, WILLIAMS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.