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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

The State,        Respondent,

v.

Jay Lamar McClellan,        Appellant.

Appeal From Georgetown County
John M. Milling, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2005-UP-432
Submitted July 1, 2005 – Filed July 13, 2005

APPEAL DISMISSED

Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry D. McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General Deborah R. J. Shupe, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  Jay McClellan appeals his sentence of nineteen years imprisonment for aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse.  He maintains the trial court abused its discretion in failing to grant McClellan a continuance.  After a thorough review of the record and counsel’s brief 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] McClellan’s appeal and grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

HEARN, C.J. and BEATTY and SHORT, JJ., concur.

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