text:  going upon one indictment containing several counts and one sentence is pronounced upon all the counts according to the proposition now contended for; suppose the sentences to be bad on all the counts _but one_ that one applying to the most insignificant offence of the whole; a court of error it is said has no right to interfere! That is to say it cannot correct error except such error be _universal_;--no matter how important that error no matter how insignificant the portion which is right nor what may have been the effect of such error! The proposition will no longer be 'in _nullo_ est erratum ' but that the error is not--_universal_