The second pronouncement of death sentence on Arabs found guilty of murder during the Palestine outbreak, was made today in the Haifa District Court, sitting as the Criminal Assizes, by Chief Justice Sir Michael MacDonnell, sitting with Judge Litt. The same court last week sentenced three Arabs to death for the murder of Isaac Mamann, Jewish mechanic of Safed.
Two Safed Arabs, Ahmed Schariffa and Ahmed Selim Zanib, were sentenced to death at noon today for the murder of Hannah Kohen, wife of Raphael Kohen, during the outbreak at Safed on August 28. Two other Arabs, found guilty of complicity in the murder, were sentenced to ten years each.
The trial was the shortest held so far, on the charge of murder. Three witnesses for the prosecution were heard, the son and husband of the murdered woman, and a doctor. The son and husband testified that they witnessed the shooting.
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