Opinion
63327.
DECIDED APRIL 7, 1982.
Theft by receiving. Fulton Superior Court. Before Judge Langford.
Sharon A. Shade, for appellant.
Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, Benjamin H. Oehlert III, Paul Howard, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
The defendant, indicted for burglary, was convicted by the jury of theft by receiving stolen property as a lesser included offense. He appeals, enumerating as error "[t]he trial court's charge to the jury that it could convict the defendant of theft by receiving stolen goods as a lesser included offense of burglary," contending the same constituted prejudicial error. Held:
It is noted here that the defendant made several written requests as to theft by receiving stolen property. Now he contends the court erred by charging the law of theft by receiving stolen property. A defendant cannot complain of a verdict which was brought about by a charge which he had requested. See Morrison v. State, 147 Ga. App. 410, 412 (4) ( 249 S.E.2d 131); Crane v. State, 152 Ga. App. 148 (1) ( 262 S.E.2d 513); Ruff v. State, 150 Ga. App. 238, 239 (3) ( 257 S.E.2d 203). Indeed, this rule has been held to apply even though the instructions requested are constitutionally infirm. Patterson v. State, 233 Ga. 724, 731 (7) ( 213 S.E.2d 612). However, we do not agree here that the action of the court in charging on theft by receiving stolen property as a lesser included offense would be error. Nevertheless the error, if any, was induced by the defendant, and he cannot be heard to complain. See Stancil v. State, 158 Ga. App. 147, 149 (4) ( 279 S.E.2d 457); Oglesby v. State, 243 Ga. 690, 691 (1) ( 256 S.E.2d 371).
Judgment affirmed. Banke and Birdsong, JJ., concur.