Jessie Asp admits she has a bad memory.

Many of her answers so far at a Supreme Court of Yukon murder trial, have been "I don't remember” or "I think.”

The 51-year-old told the court a history of drug and alcohol use, combined with personal trauma, has affected her memory.

"I probably won't remember this tomorrow,” she said on the stand Tuesday.

Asp is testifying in the first-degree murder trial of Norman Larue. The 30-year-old is charged with the March 2008 death of 63-year-old Gordon Seybold.

The Crown is alleging Larue, along with Asp's eldest child, Christina, attacked Seybold in his Ibex Valley home and burned the cabin to the ground.

Christina Asp has already been convicted for her role in the crime.

Jessie Asp described for the jury the times she saw her daughter, both before and after the fire.

Even though her calendar states Christina was not supposed to have been home until November, Jessie said she didn't think much about why her daughter arrived in the Yukon 11 months early, in December 2007, three months before the fire.

She had Larue with her.

"I didn't really think about it; I was just happy to see her,” Jessie said.

Christina Asp had been serving time for killing her common-law boyfriend, the court heard.

Prosecutor Bonnie Macdonald asked Jessie Asp whether she'd had a conversation with Larue about how to make money.

Asp testified she told her daughter's boyfriend to stay away from Seybold.

"I said, ‘don't, it will come back on me,'” she said, adding she didn't want Seybold to get mad at her.

Asp said the conversation happened out in her yard, but that she doesn't remember the time of day or date. She also can't remember if her daughter had been there.

In the end, Larue said he would stay away from Seybold. "I believed him,” she said.

The court has heard extensive testimony about the marijuana grow operation Seybold had on his property.

Jessie had once dated a man, Larry Brault, who lived on Seybold's property.

She testified she was aware of the grow op on the property as well as the honour system used for selling the drugs from a locked sauna.

She told the court she had taken Christina to the property before, but never Larue.

When the lengthy trial began in April, the jury heard a secretly-recorded conversation between Larue and an undercover officer pretending to be a member of a powerful gang.

In the recording, Larue tells the officer Seybold died because he "disrespected” his mother-in-law.

On the stand Tuesday, Asp made no mention of any argument with Seybold. The last she saw him was the day before the fire, in the parking lot of the Shoppers Drug Mart at the Qwanlin Mall.

She was there with family, including Christina and Larue.

They talked about his recent vacation. "It wasn't mean or anything,” she said.

She said she can't remember if she introduced Seybold to anyone.

Seybold's cabin was found fully engulfed in flames at around 6 a.m. on March 26, 2008.

At around 9 a.m., Jessie Asp told the court she and her daughter went to a bar for a drink.

Later, Larue and Christina dropped her off, in her own GMC Jimmy, at Brault's worksite near the McClintock River.

When she returned home, her vehicle was gone.

She would later receive a call saying the couple had gotten stuck in the Swift River area.

Much of the elder Asp's testimony related to the green Jimmy she owned at the time of the fire.

Experts have already testified to finding Seybold's blood on a floor mat inside the vehicle.

Jessie Asp testified that she'd never let Seybold into the vehicle and can't think of a reason he would have been in there.

The car also had damage to its back bumper.

An RCMP expert testified earlier in the trial that paint found on a knocked-over tree at the Seybold property probably came from the Jimmy.

First responders on the scene have testified to being suspicious of the tree, because it was found lying across the path to the fire.

The trial, scheduled to last three months, continued today.