The court properly refused to charge petit larceny as a lesser included offense since there was no reasonable view of the evidence that defendant committed the lesser offense but not the greater. The threatened use of force in the taking of the property was integral to the complainant's account of the crime. In contrast, defendant testified that he committed no larceny at all, but rather that the complainant voluntarily gave him the property as collateral to secure a debt...
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