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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs June 19, 2002

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ROBERT GENTRY GALBREATH
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Bedford County
No. 14,926 F. Lee Russell, Judge

No. M2001-02495-CCA-R3-CD - Filed July 26, 2002
A Bedford County jury convicted the Defendant of twelve counts of obtaining a controlled substance, Hydrocodone, b y fraud during th e period fro m August 15, 2000 throu gh September 8, 2000. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to twelve years on each count and imposed a fine of $2,000 for each count.  The trial court ordered that counts 1-4 run concurrently; that counts 5-8 run con curr ent ly, but consecutive to counts 1-4; and that counts 9-12 run concurrently, but consecutive to all other counts, for an effective sentence of thirty-six years.  On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is not sufficient to support eleven of his twelve convictions for fraud and that the trial court erred in sentencing him to thirty-six years in prison.  Finding no error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed
ROBERT W. WEDEMEYER, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAVID G. HAYES and ALAN
E. GLENN, JJ., joined.
Larry F. Wallace, Jr., Shelbyville, Tennessee (on appeal), and Richard Dugger, Shelbyville, Tennessee (on appeal and at trial), for the Appellant, Robert Gentry Galbreath.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Helena Walton Yarbrough, Assistant Attorney General; William M. McCown, District Attorney General; and Michael D. Randles, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION
I. FACTS
The following evidence was presented at the Defendant

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