Section 155.15. Larceny; defenses  


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  • 1.  In  any prosecution for larceny committed by trespassory taking or
      embezzlement, it  is  an  affirmative  defense  that  the  property  was
      appropriated under a claim of right made in good faith.
        2. In any prosecution for larceny by extortion committed by instilling
      in  the  victim a fear that he or another person would be charged with a
      crime, it is  an  affirmative  defense  that  the  defendant  reasonably
      believed  the threatened charge to be true and that his sole purpose was
      to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action  to  make  good
      the wrong which was the subject of such threatened charge.