(4) All jurisdiction and authority under the Crown Cases Act, 1848, in relation to questions of law arising in criminal trials which is transferred to the judges of the High Court by section forty-seven of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, shall be vested in the Court of Criminal Appeal under this Act, and in any case where a person convicted appeals under this Act against his conviction on any ground of appeal which involves a question of law alone, the Court of Criminal Appeal may, if they think fit, decide that the procedure under the Crown Cases Act, 1848, as to the statement of a case should be followed, and require a case to be stated accordingly under that Act in the same manner as if a question of law had been reserved. =21.= In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-- The expression “appellant” includes a person who has been convicted and desires to appeal under this Act, and The expression “sentence” includes any order of the court made on conviction with reference to the person convicted or his wife or children, and any recommendation of the court as to the making of an expulsion order in the case of a person convicted, and the power of the Court of Criminal Appeal to pass a sentence includes a power to make any such order of the court or recommendation, and a recommendation so made by the Court of Criminal Appeal shall have the same effect for the purposes of section three of the Aliens Act, 1905, as the certificate and recommendation of the convicting Court. =22.= The Acts specified in the schedule of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule. =23.= (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907. (2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. (3) This Act shall apply to all persons convicted after the eighteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and eight, but shall not affect the rights, as respects appeal, of any persons convicted on or before that date. (The enactments affected by the schedule of repeal are four in number, namely, the Treason Act, 1695, the Crown Cases Act, 1848, and the two Supreme Court of Judicature Acts of 1875, and 1881, respectively.) FOOTNOTE [39] It was under this section that the notorious murderer, S. Morrison, or Morris Stein, endeavoured to carry his appeal to the House of Lords, but the Attorney-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs) refused the necessary certificate. APPENDIX G THE CORONATION OATH OF KING GEORGE V The Coronation Oath of King George V. is identical with that of Queen Victoria save in respect of reference to the Church of Ireland:-- THE OATH