The Supreme Court today asked two noted medical specialists to decide whether it was physically possible for Sholem Lesko, Jewish youth under sentence of seven years imprisonment, to have shot to death a Polish peasant during the 1936 Przytyk pogrom. The court acted after hearing motions for a retrial following acquittal after four retrials, of another Jew, Isaac Frydman, who had been convicted of participating in the disorders. Counsel for Lesko, in appealing for a retrial, contended it was physically impossible for his client to have fired the shot that killed the Polish peasant.
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