THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Barrett  Bernard Bowen, Respondent,

v.

State of South Carolina, Petitioner

On Writ of Certiorari

Appeal from Pickens County
 Larry R. Patterson, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2007-MO-061
Submitted October 18, 2007 – Filed October 22, 2007  

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Karen Ratigan, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Deputy Chief Attorney Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Division of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  We granted a writ of certiorari to review the grant of post-conviction relief to Petitioner.  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. 

TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER, PLEICONES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.