In re R.G.

OPINION

MARGARET GARNER MIRABAL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a juvenile court order transferring appellant, R.G., to the custody of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for *311the completion of a forty year determinate sentence. We affirm.

FACTS

In March 1995, a jury found that appellant, a person under the age of seventeen, engaged in the delinquent conduct of murder. The jury assessed appellant’s punishment at a determinate sentence of 40 years confinement in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), with possible transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice…