Hill v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

A jury convicted James Lee Hill, a doctor of osteopathic medicine and henceforth appellant, in a single trial of three separate offenses of commercially dispensing a controlled substance without a valid medical purpose as proscribed by the Controlled Substances Act, Secs. 1.02(10), 3.08(h), 4.08(a)(1), and assessed his punishment in cause no. 0605-87 at 8 years probation, in cause no. 0606-87 at 4 years probation and in cause no. 0607-87 at 3 years probation and an $8,000.00 fine. 1

The record reflects that appellant…