The case confirms that where the determination of truthfulness and reliability of competing witnesses (Crown witnesses to a stabbing versus alibi witnesses) derives from the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing the evidence, an appellate court will not disturb the verdict. A fact finder may reject alibi evidence and accept Crown evidence on the same body of proof, but the two inquiries — disproving the alibi and proving guilt — remain conceptually distinct.
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