text: " _But how is the record to be dealt with?_ If the prisoner choose to bring a writ of error and show a single bad count must not the judgment be reversed if entered generally? And if entered on one count with not guilty on all the others; and that one count proved bad while even _a single one_ of the rejected counts is good and would have been supported by the evidence given at the trial the prisoner can plead _autrefois acquit_ to a fresh indictment and so get off scot-free after having been incontestably proved guilty of the act of murder! Suppose then to avoid so fearful a result separate sentences of death be passed to say nothing of the unseemliness of the transaction in open court which _might_ be avoided: but how can it be avoided _on the record_ upon which it must be entered? Mr Baron Parke pronounces that such a procedure would be "_superfluous and savour of absurdity_ "[21] and that therefore "in such a case the general judgment _might_ be good!" Thus in order to _work_ the new rule Mr Baron Parke is forced to make the case of murder a double exception--viz