The case applies settled principles on appellate review of Magistrates Court convictions through the WA Criminal Appeals Act 2004 framework, confirming that credibility-based findings will not be reversed unless shown to be flawed by incontrovertible facts, and that additional evidence which could have been obtained by reasonable diligence before trial is 'new' evidence subject to the higher threshold of establishing innocence or raising sufficient doubt.
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