State v. Carter

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 122,626 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JOHNATHAN ELI CARTER, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Jury instructions must be legally appropriate by fairly and accurately stating the applicable law. They must also be factually appropriate with sufficient competent evidence to support them. 2. To prove felony murder, there must be a direct causal connection between commission of the felony and the homicide. Such causal connection is established if the homicide lies within the res gestae of the underlying crime with no extraordinary intervening event…