Tyler

By CASEY KNAUPP
Staff Writer

The husband of a woman who allegedly strangled their 2-year-old son to death pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting a Smith County district attorney investigator.

Mickey Stevens, 39, was initially charged with felony assault on a public servant but pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offense of assault. He was sentenced by 241st District Judge Jack Skeen Jr. to one year deferred adjudication probation.

Stevens was also charged with two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and criminal trespass — for the June 23 incident in the district attorney’s office on the fourth floor of the courthouse.

After entering into a plea agreement with attorneys, Stevens agreed to plead guilty to criminal trespass and his sentence will run at the same time as the assault charge. His resisting arrest charge will be dismissed, Skeen said. If Stevens completes the terms and conditions of his deferred probation, the offense will be dismissed from his record.

“Mickey Stevens admitted in a signed statement to the crimes he was charged with and that what he did was wrong,” Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham said in a prepared statement. “We recognize that he lost his son and was under stress at the time, so we were comfortable with allowing him to put this behind him by pleading to lesser offenses.”

On July 8, Stevens’ wife, Catherine Alana Stevens, who reportedly has a history of mental illness, was jailed on a capital murder charge.

Stevens went into Bingham’s office June 23 and asked Bingham about retrieving his computer that had been seized as possible evidence in his wife’s capital murder case, a probable cause affidavit written by Investigator Fabio Martinez stated.

After Bingham informed Stevens the computer could not yet be returned, Stevens began making threatening gestures and using profanity. He began walking toward Bingham when Martinez walked in between the men and asked Stevens to leave, the affidavit stated.

Stevens moved toward the door, but then turned around and struck Martinez in the chest with his elbow before attempting to go back into Bingham’s office, according to the affidavit.

As Martinez was arresting him, Stevens resisted, the affidavit stated.

Stevens was represented by Thad Davidson while Assistant Attorney General Wes Mau prosecuted the case. Bingham recused his office from handling the case.

Mickey Stevens
(Courtesy Smith County Sheriff)