Greenville v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

The appellant, Arthur Greenville, Jr., shot and killed Lucille Johnson in her apartment at the rear of 626 Park Avenue in Louisville. The fatal weapon was a .38-caliber revolver owned by the victim. Arthur has never denied the shooting, but claims it was u,n accident, explaining that he had just loaded the gun and it went off as he closed the cylinder. He appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment. KRS 435.010.

Arthur and Lucille met in April of 1969 and were living together, staying some of the…