Legal Opinion

Bunch v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided June 9, 1998No. 16S00-9607-CR-486PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOEHM, Justice.

Kristine M. Bunch was convicted of felony murder 1 and arson. 2 The trial court imposed concurrent sentences of sixty and fifty years respectively. Bunch’s direct appeal presents several issues for our review that we restate as follows:

I. Does Bunch’s conviction of felony murder while committing arson require the arson conviction to be vacated?

II. Did Bunch waive any objection to the instruction on motive evidence and the lack of any instruction on circumstantial evidence?

III. Was the evidence sufficient to support the murder conviction?

IV.Was the sentence for murder manifestly…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Harris v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. Kingery v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1995
  3. Gambill v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1996
  4. Prowell v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1997
  5. Sanchez v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1996

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Buchanan v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2002
  2. Spears v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2000
  3. McCann v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2001
  4. Tobar v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2000
  5. Samuel E. Sallee v. State of IndianaIndiana Supreme Court · 2016

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