Case Name: Jackie Franklin DAVIS, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Petitioner
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1999-04-19
Citations: 335 S.C. 51
Docket Number: No. 24938
Parties: Jackie Franklin DAVIS, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Petitioner.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 335
Pages: 51–52

Head Matter:
515 S.E.2d 761
Jackie Franklin DAVIS, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Petitioner.
No. 24938.
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Heard March 16, 1999.
Decided April 19, 1999.
Rehearing Denied May 27, 1999.
Senior Assistant General Counsel Patrick M. Teague and General Counsel Frank L. Valenta, Jr., both of South Carolina Department of Public Safety, of Columbia, for petitioner.
William H. Nicholson, III of Nicholson & Anderson, of Greenwood, for respondent.

Opinion:
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
PER CURIAM:
We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals opinion in Davis v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety, 328 S.C. 578, 493 S.E.2d 871 (Ct.App.1997), Pursuant to Thompson v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety, 335 S.C. 52, 515 S.E.2d 761 (1999), we now reverse.