Garcia v. Allen

Judge Arnold Shulman.

Appellant Garcia was charged in a multiple count indictment with practicing medicine without a license and unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and dangerous drugs. Shortly before trial his attorneys, who are his co-appellants herein, caused subpoenas duces tecum to be issued to a physician and to a pharmacist who were to be called as state’s witnesses, the former to testify that the prescriptions at issue had not been written for legitimate medical purposes and the latter to testify that the defendant had been writing an unusually large number of prescriptions for…