THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

The State, Petitioner,

v.

Charles Q. Jackson, Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Bamberg County
Doyet A. Early, III, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27068
Heard November 2, 2011 - Filed November 21, 2011

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Mark R. Farthing, all of Columbia, and J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., of Aiken, for Petitioner.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Jackson, 384 S.C. 29, 681 S.E.2d 17 (2009).  We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Moore, concur.