The Court of Appeal yesterday acquitted two Arabs of Haifa who were sentenced to thirty months imprisonment on the charge of looting wheat during the riots. The Court also reduced to three months the sentence of an Arab of Haifa who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for being a member of an armed crowd during the riots. The Court acquitted a Jerusalem Arab sentenced to thirty months on the charge of stabbing Menachem Kapliuk, young author and student at the University. The Examining Judge discharged Mordecai Sasson, Jew of Jerusalem, charged with attempted murder, because of conflicting testimony of witnesses for the prosecution. Salim Shachrur, a Jew of Safed, was sentenced to four months imprisonment for perjury, when he was a witness in one of the Safed cases. An Arab villager was sentenced to three years for looting a Jewish farm near Roshpina.
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