text:  Why should the judges be given credit for being able to discard from consideration these legally extrinsic matters in a single count and not also by the exercise of the very same discretion be able to discard in considering the record irrelevant and insufficient counts such as in the eye of the law have no existence are mere nonentities? For these and many other reasons which might be assigned had we not already exceeded our limits we have after a close and a candid study of the judgments delivered by the three peers and the convincing the conclusive judgments of the great majority of the judges come without hesitation to the conclusion that the Lords have not merely decided incorrectly but have precipitately removed a chief corner-stone from the fabric of our criminal law and have incurred a very grave responsibility in so doing