A 36-year-old homeless woman entered a plea of not guilty in Circuit Court on Thursday to charges she stabbed a 57-year-old woman and tried to burn her in a Kalihi apartment last month.

Circuit Judge Richard Perkins set the trial of Mavourneen Rombawa for the week of Aug. 3 before Circuit Judge Dean Ochiai.

An Oahu grand jury indicted Rombawa on May 28 on charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree arson and kidnapping. Rombawa has been in custody since her arrest May 20. Perkins confirmed Rombawa’s bail at $150,000.

Prosecutors said Rombawa entered the Kamehameha IV Road apartment of Danita Mendez on May 20 through an unlocked door and stabbed the woman when she refused to allow Rombawa to take a bath. The suspect allegedly used a wire to tie the woman to a chair, poured vegetable oil over her, the chair and the floor, and set the woman on fire, prosecutors said.

A police affidavit said Mendez was stabbed once in the left side of her forehead, twice to the left neck area, once to the right side of the neck and once to the left earlobe. She was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition.