Submission to the jury of a lesser included offense at the trial of a criminal charge, over the objection of the defendant, is based on the algebraic proposition that the greater includes the less, and for this reason indictment on the greater charge ordinarily furnishes adequate notice of exposure to conviction on the lesser. While this conviction for grand larceny in the third degree may, as a...
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