State will not prosecute 73-year-old escaped convict

Leroy Albert Morgan was apprehended in Mosheim last month as part of the Tennessee Department of Correction’s program to round up escaped convicts.

Assistant District Attorney General Roger D. Moore says Morgan’s age and clean record since escaping were factors in the decision.

Authorities said Morgan escaped along with two other men from the old Tennessee State Prison in Nashville in 1961 after serving less than a year on a burglary sentence.

Morgan was taken to the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex, a maximum security facility in Petros. He will face a parole board hearing later this month.