Case Name: The STATE, Petitioner, v. Amaurys C. FONSECA, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 2011-06-27
Citations: 393 S.C. 229
Docket Number: No. 26994
Parties: The STATE, Petitioner, v. Amaurys C. FONSECA, Respondent.
Judges: BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 393
Pages: 229–232

Head Matter:
711 S.E.2d 906
The STATE, Petitioner, v. Amaurys C. FONSECA, Respondent.
No. 26994.
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Heard Feb. 1, 2011.
Decided June 27, 2011.
Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, and Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., all of Columbia, and Solicitor Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for Petitioner.
Appellate Defender Tristan M. Shaffer, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Opinion:
Justice PLEICONES.
We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals and now affirm that well-reasoned opinion. State v. Fonseca, 383 S.C. 640, 681 S.E.2d 1 (Ct.App.2009). The Court of Appeals properly held that the circuit court erred in permitting the State to introduce evidence of the 2001 incident, and properly summarily disposed of the State's additional sustaining ground , and in so doing anticipated our decision in State v. Wallace, 384 S.C. 428, 683 S.E.2d 275 (2009). Finding no error in the Court of Appeals' decision, we adopt it as our own and therefore
AFFIRM.
BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.
TOAL, C.J., dissenting in a separate opinion.
. The dissent would rely upon Rule 220(c), SCACR, which allows this Court to affirm an appeal for any reason appearing in the record, to reverse the decision which we are reviewing.