The court properly declined to charge petit larceny as a lesser included offense of robbery as the jury could not "`"resort to sheer speculation"'" or employ "selective dissection of the integrated testimony of [the complaining] witness" and thus there was no "identifiable, rational basis on which the jury could reject a portion of the prosecution's case which [was] indispensable to establishment of the higher crime and yet accept so much of the proof as would establish the...
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