Task: songer_appel1_7_2

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence -by the District Court for the District of New Jersey upon an indictment charging the defendant with transportation and possession of 215 gallons of distilled spirits, being intoxicating liquor containing more than one-half per cent, of alcohol and fit for use for beverage purposes. By agreement the case was tried before the District Judge without a jury.
The testimony showed that a police officer of Jersey City, while patrolling the Newark turnpike, noticed a truck, loaded with large packing eases, which aroused his suspicions. He stopped the truck, noticed that the license tags were not fastened securely, examined one of the cases, and found 45 five-gallon cans of alcohol. The alcohol tested 92.7 per cent, by volume, and was fit for bevei-age purposes. Defendant, the driver of the truck, testified that he had taken a load of lumber from New York to Newark; that he was hired by a stranger to take a load back to New York; that the truck was loaded in his absence; and that he had no knowledge that the load concealed alcohol. He testified that the truck did not belong to him.
It is undisputed that the seizure was made solely qn suspicion, and that, when the officer discovered the violation, he knew that the seizure would be turned over to the. federal authorities for prosecution. The defendant moved to suppress the evidence on the ground that there was no. probable cause for the search. That motion was denied, and the case went to the judge on the evidence without exception to the denial of the motion to suppress. The judge found the defendant guilty, and sentenced him to fine and imprisonment.
The defendant must be deemed to have abandoned his objections and have rested his ease upon the evidence. In the absence of manifest injustice, this court will not review, upon appeal, alleged erroneous rulings of the trial court to which no exceptions have boon taken. Bilboa v. United States (C. C. A.) 287 F. 125; Finley v. United States (C. C. A.) 256 F. 845. Wo think the evidence presented sustains the finding of the defendant’s guilt.
The judgment is affirmed.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.
A. not ascertained
B. male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
C. male - assumed because of name
D. female - indication in opinion of gender
E. female - assumed because of name
Answer:

Answer: B