It shall be no defense to a prosecution for larceny that the accused was entitled to a commission out of the money or property appropriated as compensation for collecting or receiving the same for or on behalf of the owner thereof, or that the money or property appropriated was partly the property of another and partly the property of the accused; but it shall not be larceny for any bailee, factor, pledgee, servant, attorney, agent, employee or trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, officer or other person to retain his or her reasonable collection fee or charges.
[1911 C&P § 387; RL § 6652; NCL § 10339]