J.C.D., Matter Of

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

J.C.D., a minor, was adjudged delinquent after pleading guilty to murder. J.C.D. received a twenty-five year determinate sentence and was committed to the Texas Youth Commission. Two and one-half months before J.C.D.’s eighteenth birthday, the juvenile court conducted a hearing to determine whether to transfer him to the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) or recommit him to the Texas Youth Commission without a determinate sentence. J.C.D. appeals from the trial court’s order transferring him to the TDCJ to serve the remainder of…