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.
In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
United States of America,
Plaintiff, Appellant
v
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendant, Appellee.
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendants, Cross-appellants
v
United States of America.
Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
of the Board
Plaintiff, Appellants,
v
United States of America,
Defendant, Appellee.
This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
Note that if an individual is listed by name, but their appearance in the case is as a government official, then they should be counted as a government rather than as a private person. For example, in the case "Billy Jones & Alfredo Ruiz v Joe Smith" where Smith is a state prisoner who brought a civil rights suit against two of the wardens in the prison (Jones & Ruiz), the following values should be coded: number of appellants that fall into the category "natural persons" =0 and number that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials" =2. A similar logic should be applied to businesses and associations. Officers of a company or association whose role in the case is as a representative of their company or association should be coded as being a business or association rather than as a natural person. However, employees of a business or a government who are suing their employer should be coded as natural persons. Likewise, employees who are charged with criminal conduct for action that was contrary to the company policies should be considered natural persons.
If the title of a case listed a corporation by name and then listed the names of two individuals that the opinion indicated were top officers of the same corporation as the appellants, then the number of appellants should be coded as three and all three were coded as a business (with the identical detailed code). Similar logic should be applied when government officials or officers of an association were listed by name.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the appellant is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

Opinion:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Jewell LILE, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14424.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
Decided May 22, 1961.
Robert D. Simmons, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., William B. Jones, U. S. Atty., and Robert D. Simmons, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., on the brief, for plaintiff-appellee.
W. Gordon Iler, Owensboro, Ky., Robert L. Gwin, Gwin & Iler, Owensboro, Ky., on the brief, for defendant-appellant.
Before CECIL, WEICK and O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The principal question involved is whether the trial judge should have submitted the issue of entrapment to the jury. In refusing to instruct the jury on the subject of entrapment, the District Judge determined as a matter of law that there was no evidence to support the appellant’s claim that the government agent created the offense and improperly induced him to commit the crime for which he was indicted.
David Jewell Lile, the appellant, was charged in a two-count indictment of having in his possession, selling and transferring distilled spirits in the amount of twenty gallons on February 9, 1960 and fifteen gallons on February 12, 1960, in violation of section 5604(a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. § 5604(a) (1). The gravamen of the offense is that the immediate containers in which the liquor was sold had no tax stamps affixed, as required by law.
The government agent, Robert Martin, an investigator for the Alcohol Tax Division of the Treasury Department, was introduced to the appellant at his home by a Mr. Adcock, on February 5, 1960. Mr. Adcock was known to government agents for three or four years and had previously been engaged in the illegal liquor business. At the time of the events in this case, he was not under indictment and so far as was known by government agents was not in the business.
Mr. Martin was introduced to the appellant as Buster Martin and a coal miner who was bootlegging whiskey on the side. In all of his contacts with Lile he wore working clothes characteristic of a miner.
On February 5th, Lile told Martin that he did not have any (whiskey) and on being asked by Martin if he could find him some said that he could buy some for him. Arrangements were then made for Lile to get whiskey for Martin later.
Martin went back on February 9th. After arguing about price, they agreed on four dollars and a half per gallon. Martin gave Lile ninety dollars and he took the government truck which Martin was driving and brought back to the agreed place of meeting twenty gallons of whiskey. Lile directed Martin to drive Lile’s car to a certain place where he said he would meet him with the whiskey. Martin bought fifteen gallons in a similar transaction on February 12th. Lile testified that he made fifty cents a gallon on the transactions. He was unable to make another delivery on the 15th because his source of supply had been caught.
Viewing the evidence in the most favorable light to the appellant, we find no evidence to support a claim that he was by “persuasion, deceitful representation, or inducement lured into the commission,” of the crime with which he stands charged. He was not “seduced by the representations of the government into illegal conduct.” The ruse as to Martin’s identity was no more than the permissible artifice and stratagem which may be employed to catch those engaged in criminal enterprises. Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 53 S.Ct. 210. Clearly the government agents did not create the offense. They did no more than afford the facility and opportunity for the appellant to make an illegal sale which he was ready and able to do.
In Rodriguez v. United States, 5 Cir., 227 F.2d 912, 914, it was held no error was committed in refusing to charge on entrapment where there was no evidence to support the charge. In Morei v. United States, 6 Cir., 127 F.2d 827, 834, the Court said: “Each case must be governed to a large extent by its own facts.” In United States v. Wallace, 3 Cir., 269 F.2d 394, 396, the court quoted with approval the instructions of the trial judge: “The question is whether the defendant was disposed to trade in narcotics or yielded to importunations contrary to his own inclination.”
There is no evidence in the record of this case that Lile “yielded to importuna-tions contrary to his own inclination.”
Sorrells v. United States, supra, and Sherman v. United States, 356 U.S. 369, 78 S.Ct. 819, 2 L.Ed.2d 848, can be distinguished from the case at bar on their facts.
We find no merit in the other errors urged by the appellant and the judgment of the District Court is therefore affirmed.
. Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 445, 53 S.Ct. 210, 214, 77 L.Ed. 413.
. Morei v. United States, 6 Cir., 127 F.2d 827, 835.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 1