State v. Cummings

OPINION

SUMMERS, Judge.

The appellant, Westney C. Cummings, was indicted by the Coffee County Grand Jury during its January 1990 session in an eighty-count indictment charging him with violations of T.C.A. § 53-ll-402(a)(3). The indictment alleged that the appellant had fraudulently obtained codeine and hydroco-done from several pharmacies from June through December 1989. The appellant applied for pretrial diversion and attached some twenty-four documents which included letters of recommendation, awards, certificates, and other positive background information. The district attorney general…