Zachariah David Konkle v. State of Indiana

Summary

The court affirmed Konkle’s voluntary-manslaughter conviction and thirty-four-year sentence. It held that Konkle preserved his prosecutorial-misconduct claim by timely objecting when the trial court overruled the objection, and that the prosecutor’s use of the eggshell-skull doctrine was permissible because it addressed causation rather than mens rea. The court also held that the evidence supported a finding that Konkle knowingly killed Steele and that the sentence was not inappropriate.