Where a criminal case turns entirely on the credibility of witnesses regarding matters such as demeanour, and the witnesses' evidence is substantially corroborative, the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing the witnesses will ordinarily be capable of resolving any doubt experienced by the appellate court on the written record. The case illustrates the application of the M v The Queen test in the context of fingerprint evidence where the Crown relied on evidence of regular cleaning to establish the recency of prints.
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