Where the Crown ties its case on certain counts to a specific date and the jury acquits on those counts, the acquittals cannot be treated as reflecting mere uncertainty about dates if the complainant's account was intertwined with the specific date. The acquittals in such circumstances diminish the complainant's overall credibility and cannot be logically reconciled with convictions on remaining counts where the complainant's evidence was the sole direct evidence and was no more reliable in respect of the convicted counts than the acquitted counts.
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