STATE v. BARROSO

No. 2357.

462 S.E.2d 862 (1995)

The STATE, Respondent, v. Juan Adriano BARROSO, a/k/a "Juan Juan", Kenneth D. Jefferson, David Ray Matthews, Michael A. Poston, Grier Carter Copeland, James Alfred Hudson, a/k/a "Bimbo", Dennis M. Jefferson, John E. Watford, Jr., Herman McClain, Henry Christopher Grady, Ronald Mackey Amerson, Ronnie Ellison Moody, Derrick Randy Lloyd, James Michael Hill, James Napoleon Smith, William Van Jefferson, Bobby Bell, Garris Edwin Amerson, Ronald Thomas Rogers, Tommy L. McElveen, Freddie Stevens, Jr., Gene Edward Taylor, of whom David Ray Matthews, Michael A. Poston, John E. Watford, Jr., James Michael Hill, James Napoleon Smith, Bobby Bell and Tommy L. McElveen, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided June 12, 1995.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chief Atty. Daniel T. Stacey, Asst. Appellate Defenders Robert M. Pachak, Robert M. Dudek, and M. Anne Pearce, South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia; J. Alex Stanton, IV; and Edward E. Saleeby, Jr., Hartsville, for appellants.

David Ray Matthews, Ridgeville, pro se.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. Charles W. Gambrell, Jr., and Asst. Atty. Gen. Chris Gantt Hoffman, Columbia, for respondent.


SHAW, Judge.

In December 1990, the Statewide Grand Jury indicted 22 individuals, among them Appellants David Ray Matthews, John E. Watford, James Michael Hill, Bobby Bell, James Napoleon Smith, Michael Poston, and Tommy McElveen, for trafficking in cocaine in excess of 400 grams, in violation of S.C.Code Ann. § 44-53-370(e)(2)(e) (Supp. 1993). The State tried together the defendants who did not plead guilty, and the...

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