text: ) The record is afterwards made up; a writ of error brought; the only count on which the judgment is given being C the court of error _decides that it is bad_ reverses the judgment and the prisoner is discharged; or the country is put to the expense and trouble of bringing and the prisoner unjustly harrassed by fresh proceedings which may perhaps end as disastrously as before! To escape from these serious difficulties it is proposed by Lord Denman [18] to leave the legal sufficiency of the counts for discussion before a court of error and to pass not one sentence but three distinct sentences on each count respectively apportioning to the offence thereby apparently charged the degree of punishment due to the guilt disclosed