Life without parole sentence handed out in Golden stabbing death case
Jackson
August 28, 2019
Charlea Estes-Jones
The man convicted of stabbing a man from Golden to death in December 2017 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional 10 years by a Barry County Judge. Matthew Aaron Jackson, 42, of Holiday Island, Ark., was sentenced by Judge Jack Goodman on August 19 after being found guilty of murder in the first degree and armed criminal action by a jury on March 28 of this year.
Jackson was arrested shortly after the victim, Steven Gregory Chupp, of Golden, was transported to the hospital for several stab wounds. Chupp died en route to the hospital on December 4, 2017.
According to the affidavits probable cause filed by the Barry County Sheriff’s Department in 2017, Jackson told officers he stabbed Chupp several times with a knife on Monday, December 4.
It was released that the two men had an argument, but the nature of that argument was unknown at that time.
Jackson first went to trial on the case in November 2018. However, the initial jury trial was declared a mistrial after accidental contact between a Barry County Sheriff's Department officer and the jury pool. The mistrial was declared on October 29, 2018.
The second trial began on March 26, 2019. The three-day trial resulted in the jury returning two guilty verdicts on the charges Jackson faced: first degree murder and armed criminal action.
Initially, Jackson's sentencing was scheduled for June 17, but it was postponed until this month.
Jackson was transported out of the Barry County Jail on Tuesday, August 27, at 5:27 a.m. Jackson will serve an incarceration sentence of life without parole with the Department of Corrections plus an additional ten years for the armed criminal action charge.
Charlea Estes-Jones
The man convicted of stabbing a man from Golden to death in December 2017 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional 10 years by a Barry County Judge. Matthew Aaron Jackson, 42, of Holiday Island, Ark., was sentenced by Judge Jack Goodman on August 19 after being found guilty of murder in the first degree and armed criminal action by a jury on March 28 of this year.
Jackson was arrested shortly after the victim, Steven Gregory Chupp, of Golden, was transported to the hospital for several stab wounds. Chupp died en route to the hospital on December 4, 2017.
According to the affidavits probable cause filed by the Barry County Sheriff’s Department in 2017, Jackson told officers he stabbed Chupp several times with a knife on Monday, December 4.
It was released that the two men had an argument, but the nature of that argument was unknown at that time.
Jackson first went to trial on the case in November 2018. However, the initial jury trial was declared a mistrial after accidental contact between a Barry County Sheriff's Department officer and the jury pool. The mistrial was declared on October 29, 2018.
The second trial began on March 26, 2019. The three-day trial resulted in the jury returning two guilty verdicts on the charges Jackson faced: first degree murder and armed criminal action.
Initially, Jackson's sentencing was scheduled for June 17, but it was postponed until this month.
Jackson was transported out of the Barry County Jail on Tuesday, August 27, at 5:27 a.m. Jackson will serve an incarceration sentence of life without parole with the Department of Corrections plus an additional ten years for the armed criminal action charge.
