A Fairfield woman convicted in the 2019 stabbing death of her boyfriend has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge David Carpenter handed down the sentence Thursday following the March conviction for 32-year-old Jammie LaJoyce Hughes.

Hughes was convicted in the Oct. 3, 2019, stabbing death of 35-year-old Sidell Alstan Erskine. The jury rejected Hughes’s self-defense claim.

She faced an automatic life sentence because she has three prior felony convictions for burglary. Those convictions took place in 2013, 2015, and 2017.

Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and Fairfield firefighters responded at 2:26 p.m. that Thursday to a home in the 300 block of 52nd Street in Fairfield. They arrived at the house and found Erskine unresponsive. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:40 p.m.

Sheriff’s officials at the time said detectives determined the man’s death resulted from an argument with his girlfriend. Hughes called 911 and was still on the scene when authorities arrived and was taken into custody.

She was then charged with murder and booked into the Jefferson County Jail. She was released on bond later that month, and subsequently married someone else.

Hughes was jailed again on contempt charge after authorities say she falsely testified about her criminal record.

Her attorney, Christopher Daniel, contended that Hughes and Erskine fought over a knife, and that’s when Erskine was fatally stabbed.

He said following her previous prison stint, she had been a “model citizen and mother” up until Erskine’s murder. “She and Erskine had a toxic relationship but even then, she was never convicted of or even charged with additional charges until this case,’’ Daniel wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

“Hughes raised her daughters to be excellent young ladies,’’ Daniel wrote. “While Hughes herself has a difficult past, she has been an excellent mother.”

Daniel had asked that Hughes be sentenced to 20 years in prison.