Task: songer_initiate

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify what party initiated the appeal. For cases with cross appeals or multiple docket numbers, if the opinion does not explicitly indicate which appeal was filed first, assumes that the first litigant listed as the "appellant" or "petitioner" was the first to file the appeal. In federal habeas corpus petitions, consider the prisoner to be the plaintiff.

PER CURIAM.
, Appellant was convicted after trial before a jury on a three-count indictment charging housebreaking, grand larceny and malicious destruction of movable-property. The evidence tended to show that appellant and another had broken into the office of the Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries on December 7, 1957, and had there broken open a safe and taken from it money amounting to at least $200. We have examined appellant’s contentions and find therein no reason to disturb the judgment.
Affirmed.

Question: What party initiated the appeal?
A. Original plaintiff
B. Original defendant
C. Federal agency representing plaintiff
D. Federal agency representing defendant
E. Intervenor
F. Not applicable
G. Not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: B