THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court


Ivelaw P. Jones,        Respondent,

v.

State of South Carolina,        Petitioner.


ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI


Appeal From Dorchester County
Luke Brown, Jr., Trial Judge
R. Markley Dennis, Jr., Post-Conviction Judge


Memorandum Opinion No. 2004-MO-002
Submitted December 4, 2003 - Filed January 15, 2004


DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED


Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Chief, Capital and Collateral Litigation, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General B. Allen Bullard, Jr., Assistant Attorney General David A. Spencer, all of Columbia, for Petitioners.

Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of Columbia, for Respondents.


PER CURIAM:  This Court granted certiorari to review the granting of post-conviction relief for Respondent.  After careful consideration, we dismiss certiorari as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED.

   s/Jean H. Toal                                       C.J.
s/James E. Moore                                    J.
s/John H. Waller, Jr.                                  J.
s/E. C. Burnett, III                                       J.
s/Costa M. Pleicones                               J.