TOWNSEND, J.
1. While a pertinent, apt, and legal written request to charge should be given in the language requested, a failure to charge in the exact language requested is not harmful to the defendant where, as here, he is given the full benefit of the principles of law set out in the requests. Code § 70-207; Smith v. State, 202 Ga. 851, 861 (45 S.E.2d 267). The court's charge to the jury that, "to constitute the offense of larceny of an automobile...
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