State v. Newman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an interlocutory appeal taken by the State from pretrial orders of the district court of Barton County suppressing certain evidence of the State and excluding the same from the trial of the defendant, Chester Newman. The defendant was charged with arson, K.S.A. 21-3718; burglary, K.S.A. 21-3715; and theft, K.S.A. 21-3701(<z). The Court of Appeals in an unpublished opinion dismissed the interlocutory appeal for want of jurisdiction. The Supreme Court granted the State’s petition for review.

For purposes of this appeal, the facts are…