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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Sammy Cowan, Petitioner,

v.

State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2015-001335

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Appeal from Anderson County Alexander S. Macaulay, Post-Conviction Relief Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-003 Submitted January 16, 2018 – Filed January 31, 2018

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Kathrine H. Hudgins, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Lindsey A. McCallister, both of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the post-conviction relief (PCR) court's dismissal of Petitioner Sammy Cowan's application for PCR. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW and JAMES, JJ., concur.