State v. LaPointe

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 112,019 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellant, v. JACK R. LAPOINTE, Appellee. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. The right to appeal is entirely statutory, and the limits of appellate jurisdiction are imposed by the legislature. 2. The determination of whether the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction over an appeal rests on the interpretation of statutes and involves a question of law over which the Kansas Supreme Court, upon review of a Court of Appeals decision, exercises unlimited review. 3. The district court must have entered a final judgment before the…