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5. Mr. Banerjee has laid a good deal of stress on the expression "for a term, exceeding six months" and "to fine exceeding two hundred rupees" and he argues that according to Section 35 (3), Criminal P. C. where there are two consecutive terms of imprisonment, the aggregate of the consecutive sentences in case of convictions for several offences at one trial shall be deemed to be a single sentence. He has also drawn our attention to Section 362 (3), Criminal P. C. which provides that sentences, unless they are sentences of imprisonment ordered to run concurrently, passed under Section 35 of the Code on the same occasion shall for the purposes of this section be considered as one sentence. Section 362 provides for the record of evidence in the Courts of Presidency Magistrates. Section 35 (3) and Section 362 (3) do not take one very much further than what the actual words used in Section 411 except to this extent that where two sentences of imprisonment are passed on two different counts in the same trial it is the aggregate of the sentences which count for the purpose of appeal; in other words, it is this aggregate which will determine whether an appeal will lie or not.