State v. Terrence L. Calloway

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Terrance Leman Calloway, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2016-001958

Appeal From Abbeville County Alison Renee Lee, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-107 Submitted February 1, 2018 – Filed March 14, 2018 Withdrawn, Substituted, and Refiled June 13, 2018

AFFIRMED

Appellate Defender Kathrine Haggard Hudgins, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, Assistant Attorney General Susan Ranee Saunders and Assistant Attorney General William Frederick Schumacher, IV, all of Columbia; and Solicitor David Matthew Stumbo, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Gordon, 414 S.C. 94, 98, 777 S.E.2d 376, 378 (2015) ("In criminal cases, the appellate court sits to review errors of law only."); State v. Weston, 367 S.C. 279, 288, 625 S.E.2d 641, 646 (2006) ("The improper admission of hearsay is reversible error only when the admission causes prejudice."); State v. Jennings, 394 S.C. 473, 478 716 S.E.2d 91, 93-94 (2011) ("Improperly admitted hearsay which is merely cumulative to other evidence may be viewed as harmless."); State v. Bryant, 369 S.C. 511, 518, 633 S.E.2d 152, 156 (2006) ("Error is harmless where it could not reasonably have affected the result of the trial.").

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, GEATHERS, and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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