People v. Harte

Defendant, William Henry Harte, appeals the judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and deceit and attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud and deceit. We affirm.

The evidence showed that defendant obtained a prescription for sixty tablets of morphine on November 3, 2001, twenty tablets of Oxycontin on November 11, and forty-five tablets of Oxycontin on November 20. He obtained each of these prescriptions from a different doctor.

On November 26, 2001, defendant went to the emergency room at St. Joseph’s…