After desperate but unsuccessful efforts had been made, in the ensuing term, to disturb the verdict, the last step which could be resorted to in order to avert the sentence, was adopted--viz., a motion in arrest of judgment, on the main ground that the indictment disclosed in _no part_ of it any indictable offence. It was expressly admitted by the traversers' counsel, in making the motion, that if "the indictment did disclose, with sufficient certainty, an indictable offence in all OR ANY of its counts, the indictment was sufficient;" and it was then "contended, that _not one_ of the counts disclosed, with sufficient certainty, that the object of the agreement alleged in it was an indictable offence." The court, however, was of a different opinion; and the Chief-Justice, in delivering his judgment, thus expressed himself--"It was boldly and perseveringly urged, that there was no crime charged in the indictment. If there was one in any count, or in any part of a count, that was sufficient." So said also Mr Justice Burton--"We cannot arrest the judgment, if there be _any_ count on which to found the judgment"--the other two judges expressly concurring in that doctrine; and the whole court decided, moreover, that _all_ the counts were sufficient in point of law. They, therefore, refused the motion. Had it been granted--had judgment been arrested--all the proceedings would have been set aside; but the defendants might have been indicted afresh. Let us once more repeat here--what is, indeed, conspicuously evident from what has gone before--that at the time when this motion in arrest of judgment was discussed and decided in the court below, there was no more doubt entertained by any criminal lawyer at the bar, or on the bench, in Ireland or England, that if an indictment contained one single good count it would sustain a general judgment, though there might be fifty bad counts in it, than there is of doubt among astronomers, or any one else, whether the earth goes round the sun, or the sun round the earth. Had the Irish Court of Queen's Bench held the contrary doctrine, it would have been universally scouted for its imbecility and ignorance.