J. M. J. v. State

J.M.J. appeals a commitment order adjudicating him delinquent for violating the probation terms of a previous order prohibiting truant and runaway behavior and withholding adjudication of delinquency for an act of contempt. The contemptuous act was disobedience to an oral order prohibiting runaway and truant behavior in a dependency case originating from a yet earlier occurrence of such behavior.

Appellant argues the order is reversible because a delinquency petition was never filed and because a finding of delinquency in this case, rather than dependency, frustrates the plain legislative…