A 32-year-old Fairfield woman was convicted Tuesday in the 2019 stabbing death of her boyfriend in Fairfield.

The Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff jury found Jammie LaJoyce Hughes guilty of murder in the slaying of 35-year-old Sidell Alstan Erskine.

The trial began March 13 before Circuit Judge David Carpenter.

Closing arguments were delivered Monday afternoon, and the jury then began deliberations. Their guilty verdict was issued before noon Tuesday.

The jury rejected Hughes’s self-defense claim.

Sentencing for Hughes will be held June 1. She faces 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 – Oct. 3, 2019 – 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.

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

She remains held without bond.