The case applies established principles on fresh evidence on appeal in the context of an alibi defence where the appellant was unrepresented at trial. Fresh evidence that could not with reasonable diligence have been obtained at trial, and which is credible and sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt, warrants quashing a conviction, particularly where the original finding depended on credibility assessments.
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