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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Respondent,

v.

Erick E. Hewins, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000595

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Greenville County G. Edward Welmaker, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-007 Submitted March 15, 2016 – Filed March 23, 2016

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Erick E. Hewins, of McCormick, pro se, Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Assistant Attorney General Mary Leddon, and Assistant Attorney General Susannah Rawl Cole, all of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, all for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Hewins, Op. No. 2014-UP-478 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Dec. 23, 2014) (per curiam). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

PLEICONES, C.J., BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur. FEW, J., not participating.