THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State,        Respondent,

v.

Peter Edward Duke,        Appellant.

Appeal From Aiken County
James C. Williams, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2003-UP-040
Submitted November 20, 2002 – Filed January 15, 2003

APPEAL DISMISSED

Robert J. Harte, of Aiken, for appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, of Aiken, for respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Peter Edward Duke pled guilty to criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree and lewd act upon a child.  He was sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment for criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree and fifteen years imprisonment for lewd act upon a child, with the sentences to run concurrently.  Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), Duke’s counsel attached a petition to be relieved.  Duke did not file a pro se response.

After review of the record 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 Duke’s appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED. ^[1]

CONNOR, STILWELL, and HOWARD, JJ., concur.