IN RE V.P.

No. 03-00-00422-CV.

55 S.W.3d 25 (2001)

In the Matter of V.P.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

May 31, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances R. Johnson, Juvenile Public Defender, Austin, for appellant.

C. Bryan Case, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Austin, for appellee.

Before Chief Justice ABOUSSIE, Justices B.A. SMITH and PATTERSON.


ABOUSSIE, Chief Justice.

On February 16, 2000, appellant V.P., then fourteen years old, hid a gun in a friend's backpack during the bus ride to his middle school. When they arrived at school, he retrieved the gun and asked M.M. to hold it for him. The friend in whose backpack the gun was hidden approached Lance Cox, the Austin Independent School District Police Officer assigned to the school, and told Cox that V.P. had a gun on campus. Cox and Ira Williams, the school...

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