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:
HINTON v. UNITED STATES.
Nos. 11167, 11168.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued April 7, 1952.
Decided May 15, 1952.
Thomas B. Scott, Washington, 6. C., appointed by the District Court, for appellant.
Bruce G. Sundlun, Sp. Asst, to Atty. Gen., Department of Justice, with whom Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., and Joseph M. Howard, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee. George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty., and Joseph F. Goetten, Asst. U. S. Atty., when the record was filed, Washington, D. C., entered appearances for appellee.
Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN, and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges. •
EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.
These appeals are from convictions under two indictments, tried together, each of which charged the present appellant with taking “immoral, improper, and indecent liberties” with a little girl. 62 Stat. 347, D.C.Code (1940), Supp. VII, § 22-3501 (a). The girls were sisters whom we will call A and B. A was six years old and B eight. Neither child was present at the alleged offense against the other.
In each case the testimony of the child concerned was practically the only evidence having any tendency to prove a crime. A doctor who testified to a small irregular reddened area and a slight yellowish-green discharge in A’s genital region testified also that this condition “could have been caused by any. number of things. * * * It could have been an irritation due to contact with moistures such as infant’s diaper rash or whatever you might like to call it. Q. Could that have been caused by contact with some other substance, for instance, someone rubbing it? A. Yes, I believe so.” He testified that the child’s condition might have been caused by her scratching herself, and that children often cause this condition in this way.
In court, A gave consistent testimony against “Mr. Johnnie”, the appellant. But she had previously told two different stories, each entirely inconsistent with the other and with her testimony at the trial. Her mother testified that when she found a discharge on the child’s underclothing she “asked her, I said who had been touching you, just like that. She said nobody, and I said yes, there has somebody been touching you. She said no> it hasn’t. I said if you don’t tell who has been touching you, I will kill you; like that. She said ‘A lady’. I said what lady ? She said she lived around the corner. I say ‘You come around and you are going to show me where the lady lives.’ I taken her around the block as much as three times and I said ‘Where does the lady live at?’ She said, T don’t know,’ so I had my husband bring her to the hospital. * * * Q. Did she ever tell you that a man named Johnnie did that? A. No, she didn’t tell me.” On the witness stand the child admitted having told her mother it was a lady who did what the child testified the appellant did.
The government’s case in respect to the alleged assault on B was quite as weak. B, like A, consistently accused the appellant at the trial. But unlike A, no marks were ever found on B or on her clothing. Her medical examination was wholly negative. And until after A had made her accusation against the appellant, B did not intimate that anyone had touched her or attempted to do so. Even then, B’s first statement to her mother was that “ ‘A man started to touch me but I ran’ ” and the man did not touch her. She neither said she had been touched, nor mentioned the appellant, until later.
The trial judge considered the cases “very weak on the evidence” but thought this court should have an opportunity to rule on the sufficiency of the evidence. Accordingly he submitted the cases to the jury. We must reverse both convictions because in our opinion reasonable doubt of appellant’s guilt is inescapable in each case. It is of course true that self-contradiction by the government’s sole eyewitness is not always fatal to the government’s case, for circumstances may prove a defendant’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt. But there are no such circumstances here. The mere fact that A and. B, when on the witness stand, each stuck to one of her several different stories is not such a circumstance. We need not consider appellant’s other contentions.
Reversed

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