Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
It is well established that as long as there is some reasonable view of the evidence that a defendant acted as an instrumentality of the buyer, however slight, the court must, upon timely request, charge the jury as to the defense of agency (see, People v Argibay,
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