155.15 – Larceny; defenses

§ 155.15 Larceny; defenses.

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.