The defendant contends that he was denied due process of law by the trial court's refusal to provide the jury with a charge on intoxication. Although the defendant testified that he had consumed large quantities of alcohol on the day of the robbery, testimony which ordinarily would entitle him to a charge on intoxication (Penal Law § 15.25), his further testimony that he knew the wallet he picked up from the street was not his and that he intended to keep it anyway,...
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