State v. Evans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lockett, J.:

This case comes before the court on a petition for review. Defendant Larry G. Evans claims that (1) the Court of Appeals, in affirming his conviction for voluntary manslaughter, erred in determining that an alleged erroneous exclusion of evidence was not properly preserved for appeal; (2) the trial court erred in excluding evidence supporting his theory of defense; and (3) the Kansas third-party evidence rule is unconstitutional.

Michael Prince, the victim, arrived at a house in Wichita just shortly after Larry Evans, Andrew Reed, and…