The Supreme Court of South Carolina The State, Petitioner, v. Archie More Hardin, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-002035

ORDER

The petition for rehearing is granted, and we dispense with further briefing. The attached opinion is substituted for the previous opinion, which is withdrawn.

s/ Donald W. Beatty C.J.

s/ John W. Kittredge J.

s/ Kaye G. Hearn J.

s/ John Cannon Few J.

s/ George C. James, Jr. J.

Columbia, South Carolina February 12, 2020 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court The State, Petitioner, v. Archie More Hardin, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2018-002035

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Orangeburg County Maité Murphy, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27938 Heard January 15, 2020 – Filed January 29, 2020 Withdrawn, Substituted, and Refiled February 19, 2020

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Joshua Abraham Edwards, both of Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe Jr., of Orangeburg, for Petitioner.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek and Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, both of Columbia; and Daniel Carson Boles, of Boles Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Hardin, 425 S.C. 1, 819 S.E.2d 177 (Ct. App. 2018). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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