Harrell v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

These appeals are from convictions for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. All eleven of these cases were tried before the same jury. The jury assessed punishment in each case at confinement for twenty years.

Eight of these cases (Nos. 63,149; 63,150; 63,152; 63,153; 63,154; 63,155; 63,-156; and 63,157) involved the obtaining of dilaudid. The indictment in each of these eight cases alleges that the appellant did “knowingly and intentionally acquire and obtain possession of a controlled substance, namely, DILAUDID by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and…