If the indictment contains several separate and distinct misdemeanors, in separate and distinct counts, as it may if they are of like kind, the jury must find of which count or counts they find the defendant guilty, if any. Thus, for instance, guilty on the first, third and fifth counts, as charged in the indictment,13 and such verdict is equivalent to not guilty as to all other counts.14 Each count shall be known and counted in an indictment in the order in which it appears without reference to numerals placed before the counts.15

9 Herman vs. People, 131 Ill., 603; Tobin vs. People, 104 Ill., 565; Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 3351.

10 Herman vs. People, 131 Ill., 594;

Kennedy vs. People, 122 Ill., 655.

11 State vs. Stanley, 42 La., 978;

State vs. Brannon, 55 Mo., 63.

12 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 159;

Barnett vs. People, 54 Ill., 325. 13 State vs. Hopkins, 94 Iowa, 86. 14 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 3358;

Thomas vs. People, 113 Ill., 531; People vs. Whitson, 74

Ill., 20. 15 Teerney vs. People, 81 Ill., 412.