Inmate Death investigation

WARTBURG - The Department of Correction is investigating the death of an inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex.  Cecil Smith, 37, was found dead inside his cell at approximately 6:47 a.m. on Friday morning.  Smith's death appears to have been the result of a suicide.  An autopsy will be performed by the state medical examiner.

Smith was serving a 25-year sentence for five counts of Rape of a Child out of Blount County.  He was sentenced to the TDOC on November 21, 2001.  Smith's sentence would have expired in 2025.