A Lubbock County jury deliberated for three hours Wednesday before returning with a guilty verdict for a 29-year-old mother accused of burning her 2-year-old daughter by throwing hot grease at her two years ago during a fight with her husband.

Ladonna Johnson, who is out on bond, faces a punishment of probation or a prison sentence of two to 20 years as a result of the conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and bodily injury.

Prosecutors presented evidence, including a video of Johnson’s interview with police during the trial, which started Monday in the 140th District Court, to show Johnson recklessly injured her daughter, now 4, when she threw hot grease at her husband, Toria Ellis, who was holding their child.

Johnson’s defense attorney, Charles Chambers, argued to jurors his 5 foot 1 inch, 177-pound client acted in self-defense when Ellis, who is 5-foot-11 and weighs 428 pounds, attacked her the night of March 11, 2015, at her apartment in the 2100 block of East Fourth Street.

Lubbock police arrested Johnson after responding to a 911 call Ellis made accusing her of throwing scalding grease at him as he held their daughter.

In a video of Johnson’s interview with police, she admitted to throwing hot grease at Ellis in self-defense after Ellis allegedly attacked her in a jealous fit. She said she threw the hot grease she put in a cap of a stick of deodorant then locked herself in a bedroom to escape him. But she said Ellis kicked the door in and charged her. She said after running from him, she grabbed the pan with the remaining grease and threw it at Ellis, who she said used their daughter as a shield.

"He shouldn’t have used our baby as a shield. He shouldn’t have put his hands on me," she could be heard telling the police officer.

However, the officer told jurors she did not see injuries on Johnson at the time. Photos of a broken door, which Johnson said Ellis kicked in, were shown to jurors.

In his 911 call played to the jury, Ellis could be heard telling a dispatcher Johnson had thrown hot grease at him and was threatening to throw more grease while he was holding their child.

Ellis told police officers at the scene he was leaving the apartment after Johnson threw grease at him and picked up the child to leave when Johnson threw more hot grease at them from a frying pan.

Prosecutors showed jurors the leggings the child wore that night, covered in grease on the back side.

Prosecutor Barron Slack told jurors to act in self-defense, Johnson would have had to believe she was in immediate danger and needed to protect herself from Ellis by throwing hot grease at him while he was holding her child.

"Once he’s called police, he’s going out the door, is he presenting a threat?" he asked them.

In court, however, Ellis said he could not recall what he told police or what happened that night, only saying the two fought.

He described Johnson as a loving mother who would never intentionally hurt their daughter and characterized what happened as an accident.

Chambers told jurors if they didn’t believe Johnson acted in self-defense, then his client was only guilty of the lesser-included offense of deadly conduct, a class A misdemeanor.

However, prosecutor Jessica Schneider argued the difference between deadly conduct and aggravated assault is that Johnson’s daughter was injured.

"She spent several days in the hospital," she said. ""She’s going to be permanently scarred for the rest of her life without cosmetic surgery."

Schneider reminded jurors of Johnson’s interview with police, saying she never showed concern for her daughter until the police officer told her the girl was burned so badly her skin was falling off.

On March 23 of that year, a Lubbock judge ordered the child removed from her parents. A CPS worker’s affidavit states she is concerned the couple’s fighting placed the girl at risk for physical abuse.

According to court documents, a CPS worker documented the March 11, 2015, incident as physical abuse. However, the case was closed after Johnson agreed she would have no unsupervised contact with Ellis, and Ellis would not live with Johnson.

Ellis has a pending domestic assault case against him stemming from an unrelated Jan. 18 arrest in which he is accused of strangling Johnson, according to a Lubbock police report.

The punishment phase of Johnson’s trial is scheduled to begin Thursday.