Rowland

Statement of the Case

A petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 was filed in the juvenile court on May 15, 1975, alleging that appellant, age 17, had committed a battery and felonious assault on the persons of others.

At the jurisdictional hearing the referee found that appellant had committed an assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury in *803 violation of Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a), and that appellant was a person described in Welfare and Institutions Code section 602.

The report and recommendation of the probation officer recommended a Youth Authority commitment.

At the dispositional hearing, the referee found that appellant previously had been tried on probation and had failed to reform, and ordered appellant committed to the Youth Authority. Appellant was formally committed to the Youth Authority by a judge of the juvenile court.

An official court reporter was not present at either the jurisdictional or dispositional hearings before the referee.

Discussion

Appellant contends that the order committing him to the Youth Authority must be reversed because of his inability to present an adequate record on appeal due to…