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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Jimmy Lee Ellison, Appellant.

Appeal From Marion County
 Edward B. Cottingham, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No.  2007-UP-441
Submitted October 1, 2007 – Filed October 9, 2007

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia; and Solicitor  Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Appellant, Jimmy Lee Ellison, entered a plea of nolo contendere to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.  The trial judge sentenced him to ten years imprisonment, suspended upon time served.  Ellison’s counsel attached to the brief a petition to be relieved as counsel, stating that she had reviewed the record and concluded this appeal lacks merit.  Ellison did not file a separate pro se brief.  After a thorough 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[1] the appeal and grant counsel’s petition to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, CJ., HUFF, and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.

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