THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

The State, Petitioner, v. Graham Franklin Douglas, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2015-000606

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Chesterfield County The Honorable J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge,

Opinion No. 27647 Heard March 2, 2016 – Filed July 13, 2016

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Assistant Attorney General Alphonso Simon, Jr., of Columbia; and Ernest A. Finney, III, of Sumter, for Petitioner.

S. Jahue Moore, of Moore, Taylor Law Firm, P.A. of West Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in State v. Douglas, 411 S.C. 307, 768 S.E.2d 232 (2014). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED PLEICONES, C.J., BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN and FEW, JJ., concur.