In this case the defendant could not have committed robbery without having also committed larceny; the larceny offense was, therefore, an inclusory concurrent lesser count included within the greater crime of robbery. The larceny count should be dismissed. (CPL 300.40, subd. 3, par. [b]; People v. Pyles,
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