State v. KENNETH Y.

This case is before this Court upon the July 31, 2003, order of the Circuit Court of *169Jackson County, West Virginia, sentencing the appellant, Kenneth Y., a juvenile, to the Industrial Home for Youth near Salem, West Virginia, for a term not to exceed 1 year. The Circuit Court adjudicated the appellant to be a juvenile delinquent within the meaning of W.Va.Code, 49-1-4(8) (1998), upon the appellant’s admission to the charge of destruction of property.1

The charge and adjudication of delinquency arose from an incident wherein the appellant damaged the automobile of Matthew D. Francis. The…