Polson Woman Receives State Commitment for Stabbing Mother

A 34-year-old Polson woman has been sentenced to the Montana State Hospital for stabbing her mother during an argument last year.

KERR-AM reports Emilie Yellowowl was sentenced Thursday in District Court in Polson to 20 years with the Department of Public Health and Human Services with 10 suspended.

Carol Mitchell was stabbed in the back several times early on Sept. 1, causing blood to start filling one of her lungs.

Yellowowl told police she stabbed her mother because she didn’t do enough to protect her from an assault the night before. Lake County prosecutors say the assault didn’t occur and that Yellowowl had not been taking medication needed to treat mental illness.

Yellowowl was sentenced to the state hospital after stabbing two other people with a kitchen knife in 2004. She was released in 2008.

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