A young woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death will have to wait a while yet to have a bail hearing.

Christina Marie Asp's release hearing was put off last Thursday afternoon until earlier today, when time was set aside in the Yukon Supreme Court.

Approximately 20 people were on hand to see Asp make her first appearance in a Whitehorse courtroom.

Bail hearings for murder charges can only be heard in upper level courts.

The 25-year-old is charged with second-degree murder.

Keith Richard Blanchard, 28, was found at a Pelly Crossing residence with a stab wound to the chest at about 9:40 p.m. Feb. 22.

He was transported to the Pelly Crossing nursing station, where he was stabilized, but he died at 12:55 a.m. en route to Mayo.

He was to be driven to Mayo, where a medivac flight was waiting to take him to Whitehorse General Hospital.

Asp was arrested at the scene where Blanchard was stabbed.

Both had been living in Pelly for a couple of months when the stabbing occurred.

A person convicted of second-degree murder faces imprisonment for life with no eligibility for parole for between 10 and 25 years.

A sentencing judge has the discretion to set parole eligibility.