text:  Let us once more repeat here--what is indeed conspicuously evident from what has gone before--that at the time when this motion in arrest of judgment was discussed and decided in the court below there was no more doubt entertained by any criminal lawyer at the bar or on the bench in Ireland or England that if an indictment contained one single good count it would sustain a general judgment though there might be fifty bad counts in it than there is of doubt among astronomers or any one else whether the earth goes round the sun or the sun round the earth