Gilmore v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Joseph M. Gilmore was indicted for unspecified (by the record before this court) offenses in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Unknown to Gilmore, the grand jury issued subpoenas to six physicians and an osteopath for the production of records pertaining to Gilmore, apparently to obtain information from these doctors to show that Gilmore had received by prescription an inordinate amount of drugs. When the case came on for trial, Gilmore moved the trial court to suppress the evidence obtained from the physicians as being a violation of the…