T.L.P. v. State

THREADGILL, Judge.

T.L.P., a juvenile, was charged as a juvenile with battery, criminal mischief, and violation of community control. She admitted the charges and was adjudicated delinquent. After learning that T.L.P. had been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on an unrelated offense for which she had been tried as an adult, the trial court sentenced T.L.P. to one year in the county jail for each juvenile offense. The trial court was without authority to sentence T.L.P. as an adult under these circumstances, and we therefore reverse.

At the disposition hearing, trial counsel objected to the…