text:  Is _such_ a method of procedure calculated to secure respect for the administration of justice even if by means of such devices the ends of justice should be ultimately secured though it is easy to imagine cases in which such devices would after all fail; and we had framed several illustrations of such possibilities but our limits forbid their insertion: instances illustrating the mischievous operation of the rule equally in cases of defective and unproved counts--of felonies and misdemeanours--and in the latter case whether the indictment contained several offences or only varied statements of one offence