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