In re L.M.

LEE YEAKEL, Justice.

A jury empaneled in the 98th District Court, sitting as the Juvenile Court of Travis County, found that appellant L.M., a child then eleven years of age, engaged in delinquent conduct by committing the offense of injury to a child. See Tex. Fam.Code Ann. § 54.03 (West 1996 & Supp.1999); Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.04 (West 1994 & Supp.1999). The juvenile court rendered a determinate sentence of twenty-five years’ confinement. See Tex. Fam.Code Ann. §§ 53.045(a)(7), 54.04(d)(3) (West Supp.1999).1 Appellant appeals the adjudication of delinquency.

*279BACKGROUND

Appellant lived with…