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:
ROSSER v. UNITED STATES.
No. 3813.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Feb. 8, 1935.
A. D. Barksdale and Paul H. Coleman, both of Lynchburg, Va. (Barksdale & Abbot, of Lynchburg, Va., on the brief), for appellant.
Joseph H. Chitwood, U. S. Atty., of Roanoke, Va., and Howard C. Gilmer, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., of Pulaski, Va.
Before PARKER and SOPER, Circuit Judges, and HAYES, District Judge.
Writ of certiorari denied 55 S. Ct. 638, 79 L. Ed. —.
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal in a prosecution instituted under section 3296 of the Revised Statutes (as amended 26 USCA § 404). The indictment contained two counts charging respectively the removal and concealment of distilled spirits upon which the tax had not been paid, and defendant was convicted and punished under both counts. Without reviewing here the testimony, which, however, we have carefully examined, we think it amply sufficient to sustain the verdict. When viewed, as it must he on motion to direct a verdict for defendant, in the light most favorable to the government, it shows clearly that liquor upon which the tax had not been paid was removed and concealed in violation of the statute and that the defendant was present at the time aiding and abetting in these violations of the law. The case was submitted to the jury under a fair and impartial charge, which correctly stated the rules of law applicable; and defendant has no just ground to complain of his conviction.
Defendant complains that the court did not properly charge the jury as requested with respect to the rules to he observed in weighing circumstantial testimony. We think, however, that, while the abstract instructions requested by defendant were not given, his rights were fully safeguarded in instructions specifically directed to the facts of the case. The jury were instructed as to the presumption of innocence and of the necessity of guilt being shown beyond a reasonable doubt, and were told that the mere presence of the defendant at the scene of the crime when it was being committed would not in itself constitute him an aider or abettor unless his presence there was for the purpose of helping toward the commission of the crime.
Exception was taken to questions asked as to the presence of the defendant on other occasions when liquor was brought to premises owned by him but rented to one Carroll, and to the statement of the United States Attorney that he proposed to show that the defendant was present; but the testimony as to the presence of the defendant was excluded, and the jury were instructed to disregard any statements of counsel not supported by the testimony. It is clear, however, that testimony showing that defendant was present on other occasions when liquor was being brought on the Carroll premises would have been competent as tending to show the purpose of his presence on the occasion in question. Breedin v. U. S. (C. C. A. 4th) 73 F.(2d) 778. And certainly evidence of the use of the premises for an unlawful purpose was competent as a circumstance tending to establish the guilt of the defendant in view of his presence there at a time when a crime of like character was being committed.
Defendant complains that the court was without power to impose punishment under both counts of the indictment; but, as removal is an offense distinct from concealment, the power to punish for both crimes would seem too well settled to justify further discussion. Albrecht v. U. S., 273 U. S. 1, 47 S. Ct. 250, 71 L. Ed. 505; Widener v. Harris (C. C. A. 4th) 60 F.(2d) 956.
, For the reasons stated, the judgment appealed from will be affirmed.
Affirmed.

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