The requested charge to include petit larceny as a lesser included crime of grand larceny in the third degree, though refused, should have been given. On a reasonable view of the evidence the jury could well have found that the watchband was not taken from the person of the complainant but was picked up from the floor after the fight was over. (CPL 300.30, subd 1; People v Iglesias,
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