State v. Hill

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 122,861 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. NATHANIEL L. HILL, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Courts have statutory authority to correct an illegal sentence at any time, so an illegal sentence issue may be considered for the first time on appeal. 2. A person convicted of a crime is sentenced in accordance with the sentencing provisions in effect at the time the crime was committed. 3. Where the sentence announced from the bench differs from the sentence described in the journal entry, the orally pronounced sentence controls. 4. The meaning of a…