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23583
    The STATE, Respondent v. Walter THOMAS, Appellant.
    (414 S.E. (2d) 783)
    Supreme Court
    
      J. Carroll Bryant, Aiken, and South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, for appellant.
    
    
      Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. Donald J. Zelenka, Asst. Atty. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., Columbia, and Sol. Barbara R. Morgan, Aiken, for respondent.
    
    Heard Jan. 7, 1992.
    Decided Feb. 24, 1992.
   Per Curiam:

Reversed and remanded pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 220(b)(1). See Gallman v. State, 414 S.E. (2d) 780, 781 (S.C. Sup. Ct. 1992) (Davis Adv. Sh. No. 5 at 11) (jury instruction which advises the jury that they may discuss the case among themselves amounts to an invitation to begin premature deliberations and is reversible error).

Reversed and remanded.