Powell v. Texas State Board of Medical Examiners

LAGARDE, Justice.

William Joe Powell, M.D., appeals from an order affirming a decision by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners (the board) which revoked Powell’s license to practice medicine. Powell, after entering a guilty plea to two indictments charging him with failing to furnish to the Texas Department of Public Safety copies of triplicate prescription forms dispensing Schedule II controlled drugs, was convicted of two counts of commercially dispensing a controlled substance, a felony. Punishment was assessed at five years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections, probated…