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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State,        Respondent,

v.

Timothy Jerome Byers,        Appellant.

Appeal From York County
John C. Hayes, III, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2004-UP-184
Submitted January 29, 2004 – Filed March 17, 2004

APPEAL DISMISSED

Chief Attorney Daniel T. Stacey, Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, 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 Thomas E. Pope, of York, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Timothy Jerome Byers appeals his guilty plea to one count of distribution of crack cocaine and one count of distribution of crack cocaine with proximity of a school district.  Byers’s appellate counsel argues the circuit court erred in failing to ascertain that Byers understood the facts of the case in relation to the applicable law, as required by Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969).  Byers did not file a pro se reply brief.

After a review of the record as required by Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we hold there are no directly appealable issues that are arguable on their merits.  Accordingly, we dismiss Byers’s appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.¹

APPEAL DISMISSED.

GOOLSBY, HOWARD, and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.