A new indictment charging capital murder the states harshest criminal charge has been handed down against a man awaiting trial in a 2008 killing in Magnolia Springs.
Baldwin County Circuit Judge Charles Partin on Monday granted the states motion to drop charges of murder, first-degree theft of property and third-degree burglary against 20-year-old Floyd Cardale Casey.
In a motion filed Friday, the state said that an April grand jury in Baldwin County returned the capital murder indictment, superceding the previous charge.
We determined that a capital murder charge was both the proper charge for a murder during a robbery and burglary, as well as the best avenue to achieve true justice, District Attorney Hallie Dixon said, in part, in a Monday email.
She said that law enforcement officers and the victims family had provided input on the case.
Casey and alleged accomplice, Cortez Levance Porter of Foley, are accused in the December 2008 death of Edward Wayne McCrory, 52.
McCrory was found stabbed and beaten in his mobile home off Baldwin County 49, according to Sheriffs Office investigators. Money, a four-wheeler and a gun had been stolen, records stated.
Capital murder can be punished by the death penalty.
There are currently no plans to upgrade the charges against the 21-year-old Porter, according to Dixon.
He is charged with murder, first-degree theft of property, third-degree burglary and two counts of second-degree theft, records indicate. He remains in the Baldwin County Corrections Center with bail set at $2 million.
Last month, Casey was also charged with third-degree domestic violence-harassment after hitting his common-law wife and throwing a brick at her car, according to court documents.
Casey is now being held in jail without bail.
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