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STATE v. PATTON

No. 24442.

472 S.E.2d 245 (1996)

The STATE, Respondent, v. William Michael PATTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided June 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Senior Assistant Appellate Defender Wanda H. Haile, of S.C. Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General T. Travis Medlock, Chief Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., Assistant Attorney General Norman Mark Rapoport, Columbia, and Solicitor Walter M. Bailey, Jr., Summerville, for Respondent.

BURNETT, Justice:

Appellant was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of second degree arson. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murder counts and twenty years for the arson count. We affirm.

FACTS

On July 26, 1992, Appellant shot and killed his estranged wife, Sharon Patton, and their eleven-year-old daughter, Kimberly, in Sharon's mobile home. He then set fire to a building behind the mobile home.

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