State v. Gathings

Full title: The State, Respondent, v. Allen Joe Gathings, Appellant.

Court: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

Date published: Aug 22, 2012

Appellate Case No. 2010-176326 (S.C. Ct. App. Aug. 22, 2012)

Opinion

Appellate Case No. 2010-176326 Unpublished Opinion No. 2012-UP-494

08-22-2012

The State, Respondent, v. Allen Joe Gathings, Appellant.

Appellate Defender Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Assistant Attorney General Brendan J. McDonald, all of Columbia; and Solicitor William B. Rogers, Jr., of Bennettsville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM

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 Marlboro County

Howard P. King, 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, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Assistant Attorney General Brendan J. McDonald, all of Columbia; and Solicitor William B. Rogers, Jr., of Bennettsville, for Respondent. PER CURIAM : Affirmed¹ pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authority: Jones v. Lott, 387 S.C. 339, 346, 692 S.E.2d 900, 903 (2010) ("Under the two issue rule, where a decision is based on more than one ground, the appellate court will affirm unless the appellant appeals all grounds because the unappealed ground will become the law of the case.").

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

AFFIRMED.

HUFF, THOMAS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.