Commonwealth v. Larmey

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• jury instruction that defendant should be acquitted of robbery charge if he believed that money he took from victims had been stolen by them and he intended to return it to owners
• judge failed to give any instruction on mistake of fact defense
• required finding of intent to steal can be negated by evidence that the defendant took the victim’s money under the mistaken but honest and reasonable belief that the money had been stolen by the victim from others and the defendant intended to return the money to the rightful owners

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).