Section 1
SECTION 1. Whenever a writ of habeas corpus is made returnable before a judge of the Supreme Court, or before a Court of First Instance or a judge thereof, either in term time or in vacation, an appeal may be taken from the judgment of the judge or court to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, whether the judgment be that the person alleged to be unlawfully detained should be released and set at liberty or that he shall be remanded to the custody of the officer or the person detaining him. The appeal shall be taken in the manner in this Act provided. If the prisoner is ordered to be remanded by the judge or court, the appeal, if taken, shall be in the name of the prisoner. If the order of the court or judge be that the prisoner should be released, the appeal shall be taken in the name of the officer or person detaining him. But if the detention is by reason of civil proceedings, the party in interest or the person who caused the imprisonment or detention shall be entitled to control the appeal in the case last referred to. If the imprisonment or detention is by virtue of criminal proceedings against the prisoner, the fiscal of the province or the Prosecuting Attorney of the city of Manila, as the case may be. shall be entitled to control the appeal on behalf of the Government, subject to the right of the Attorney-General to intervene and represent the Government in all such cases.