text:  If the several counts were only different modes of stating the same offence the insufficiency of some of those counts could not affect the sentence; but if the different counts stated--as they well might--actually different misdemeanours and after a verdict of guilty _upon all_ it were found that some of _such_ counts--that is that some of the misdemeanours--charged must be withdrawn from the consideration of the court by reason of defects in either the counts themselves or the findings upon them it cannot in many cases be supposed that the sentence could be the same as if the court had the duty thrown upon it of punishing _all the offences charged_