The Court of Appeals today reduced the prison sentence of one of the two Jews convicted of slaying a Polish peasant during the anti-Semitic riots in Grodno last June.
Holding that Samuel Steiner, one of the convicted, had acted under the influence of psychical shock on the night of attack, the court reduced to seven years the original twelve-year sentence imposed by the Grodno court.
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