text:  The first grand conclusion of the judges was thus expressed by the Chief-Justice-- "I conceive it to be the law that in the case of an indictment if there be ONE GOOD COUNT in an indictment upon which the defendants have been declared guilty by proper findings on the record and a judgment given for the crown imposing a sentence authorized by law to be awarded in respect of the particular offence that such judgment cannot be reversed by a writ of error by reason of one or more of the counts in the indictment being bad in point of law