
    The STATE, Respondent, v. Joshua William PORCH, Petitioner.
    Appellate Case No. 2016-002146 Opinion No. 27809
    Supreme Court of South Carolina.
    Heard May 23, 2018 Filed May 30, 2018
    Matthew A. Abee, William C. Wood Jr., Michael J. Anzelmo, and Caroline Delores Gimenez, all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, and Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.
    Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, Senior Assistant Attorney General J. Anthony Mabry, Senior Assistant Attorney W. Edgar Salter III, and Solicitor Daniel Edward Johnson, all of Columbia, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM:

We granted Joshua William Porch's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision to affirm his murder conviction. See State v. Porch , 417 S.C. 619, 790 S.E.2d 440 (Ct. App. 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

KITTREDGE, Acting Chief Justice, HEARN, FEW, JAMES, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Lockemy, concur.  