text: _--"In an indictment consisting of counts A B C when the verdict is _guilty of all generally_ and the counts A and B are good and the count C is bad; the judgment being that the defendant '_for his offences aforesaid_ ' be fined and imprisoned; which judgment would be sufficient in point of law if confined expressly to counts A and B--can such judgment be reversed on a writ of error? Will it make any difference whether the punishment be discretionary as above suggested or a punishment fixed by law?" The above questions may be stated shortly and substantially thus:--Are there any _defective counts_ in the indictment? Any defective _findings_ of the jury? Any defects in _entering_ the findings? Can judgment be reversed on any of these grounds? If one only of several counts in an indictment be bad; a verdict given of "guilty" generally; judgment awarded against the defendant "for _his offences_ aforesaid " and the punishment discretionary--can judgment be reversed on a writ of error? The whole matter may now in fact be reduced to this single question: Can a judgment inflicting fine or imprisonment be reversed by a court of error because that judgment proceeded on an indictment containing both _bad and good_ counts and in respect of which _some_ of the findings of the jury were either defective or defectively entered?--Let us now listen to the decision of that venerable body of men who are in the language of our great commentator "_the depositaries of the laws the living oracles who must decide in all cases of doubt and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land