A friend who witnessed a 23-year-old woman stab her husband in the couple’s Makakilo apartment early Sunday morning says the woman was the aggressor, Deputy Prosecutor Leigh Okimoto told a state judge Thursday.

An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging the woman, Unique Nyiela Watson, with attempted murder.

Circuit Judge Shirley Kawamura confirmed Watson’s $250,000 bail.

Honolulu police said when officers showed up at the couple’s Panana Street home, Watson’s 23-year-old husband identified his wife as his assailant. They also said Watson told the officers, “He punched me in the face, so I stabbed him.”

Okimoto told Kawamura that according to a friend who had been out with the couple and who returned with them to their home, the couple had been arguing all night with Watson trying to punch and slap her husband. When the couple returned home, the friend said, Watson attacked her husband after he confronted her about a text message she received from another man. She threw a bottle of liquor at him when he stepped out of the home, and tried to hit him with a frying pan, the friend said.

After the husband went back into the home and was sitting in the living room, the friend said, Watson jumped on top of her husband and stabbed him in the neck and shoulder. The friend wrestled the knife away from Watson, and the husband walked out of the home to call 911, then collapsed, Okimoto said.

Officers arrived to find the husband lying on the ground in front of the residence, bleeding profusely but still conscious. When they asked the husband who stabbed him, police said he told them, “My wife,” and pointed to Watson.

Police said the husband’s condition was critical when he was taken to a hospital but later improved to stable.

Okimoto said Watson is on probation in California for drunken driving and recently moved to Hawaii to live with her husband.