Rice v. State

MADDOX, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of final forfeiture of nine appearance bonds signed by the appellant Roxie Rice, as surety.

*1352Dr. Richard Williams Galloway was arrested in 1981 and charged with nine counts of selling or giving away a controlled substance by issuing prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose. Galloway was Rice’s family physician and had treated her husband, who was bedridden with cancer, for three years. He called Rice and asked her to sign a bond for his release, which she did on September 18, 1981.1

On April 2, 1982, Galloway pleaded guilty and was…