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 which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant. Consider the following categories: "not ascertained", "poor + wards of state" (e.g., patients at state mental hospital; not prisoner unless specific indication that poor), "presumed poor" (e.g., migrant farm worker), "presumed wealthy" (e.g., high status job - like medical doctors, executives of corporations that are national in scope, professional athletes in the NBA or NFL; upper 1/5 of income bracket), "clear indication of wealth in opinion", "other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy" (e.g., public school teachers, federal government employees)." Note that "poor" means below the federal poverty line; e.g., welfare or food stamp recipients. There must be some specific indication in the opinion that you can point to before anyone is classified anything other than "not ascertained". Prisoners filing "pro se" were classified as poor, but litigants in civil cases who proceed pro se were not presumed to be poor. Wealth obtained from the crime at issue in a criminal case was not counted when determining the wealth of the criminal defendant (e.g., drug dealers).

Opinion:
Thomas Elliott SPENCER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 18649.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
Oct. 20, 1961.
Milton Harrison, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.
Charles D. Read, Jr., U. S. Atty., Robert G. Hunt, Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.
Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Elliott Spencer appeals from his conviction for unlawful possession of non-taxpaid liquor. His sole contention is that the trial judge gave improper jury instructions that vitiate the verdict against him. We overrule Spencer’s objections for the reason that the allegedly erroneous portions of the instructions were not applicable to his case.
Spencer and two co-defendants were charged in Count Three of a three-count indictment with the possession of nontaxpaid liquor in violation of Section 5604(a) of the Internal Revenue liquor laws (26 U.S.C.A. § 5604(a)). Counts One and Two indicted defendants Bishop and Wall with the additional charges of unlawful possession of a still and the unlawful making and fermenting of approximately 735 gallons of mash fit for distillation of spirits. But Spencer was not indicted for these offenses. Each defendant pleaded not guilty to the count or counts with which he was charged. At the close of the evidence the appellant submitted a requested jury instruction which the trial judge refused to give. The jury found all three defendants guilty as charged. Spencer alone appealed.
The portion of the charge attacked by the appellant reads as follows:
“Now when a person is on trial for possession of an unregistered distillery, or for making and fermenting mash, and the defendant is shown to have been at the site of the place at the time when the distilling apparatus is set up without having been registered, or where such mash fit for distillation or the production of distilled spirits was made or fermented, or was there possessed, such presence of the defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize conviction unless the defendant explains such presence to the satisfaction of the jury.
“Now this does not mean that the presence of the defendant at the site and place at the time referred to requires the jury to convict the defendant if the defendant fails to explain his presence to the satisfaction of the jury, it simply means that a jury may, if it sees fit, convict upon such evidence as it shall be deemed in law sufficient to authorize such a conviction, but does not require such a result.”
Spencer asserts that these instructions are erroneous: mere presence is insufficient evidence to support a verdict that a defendant was in possession of non-tax-paid liquor. McClain v. United States, 5 Cir., 1955, 224 F.2d 522; Vick v. United States, 5 Cir., 1954, 216 F.2d 228. He contends that the charge in effect shifted the burden of proof from the Government to him, in that it required him to explain his presence at the distillery.
The fatal defect in Spencer’s argument is that the portion of the jury charge under attack does not apply to the indictment against him. The challenged sentence deals specifically with cases “when a person is on trial for possession of an unregistered distillery, or for making and fermenting mash.” These were the offenses charged against Bishop and Wall but not charged against Spencer. Just before giving the charge objected to by Spencer the judge instructed the jury as follows:
“Now in the first and third counts of the indictment the charge is that in the first count, that the defendants Bishop and Wall possessed a still or distilling apparatus, while in the third count all the defendants are charged with having possessed certain distilled spirits, nontaxpaid distilled spirits.
“Now possession, as used in the indictment here, means and denotes custody with a right of control, the right of dominion over the property. Now it does not necessarily mean ownership because a person may be in possession of property with the right to exercise control and dominion over it without ever having title to it, but his mere presence at, or his handling it physically, if he does not have control of it and the right to exclude others from controlling it and thus exercise dominion over it, then would not be such possession.
“A person who knowingly has direct physical control over a thing with the right to deal with it, and to exclude other persons from meddling with it, is then in possession of it within the meaning of the law, but a person who is a hired hand and merely handles property, but has no control or right to control it, is not in possession of it within the meaning of this law.”
In substance these instructions correspond closely with the charge the appellant requested. We consider that the charge was a full and fair statement of the legal principles relevant to the indictment of Spencer.
The judgment is
Affirmed.
. The instructions requested read as follows:
“Thomas Elliott Spencer is indicted only for possession of non-tax-paid whiskey. That is all. To convict Spencer of this offense, it must appear beyond a reasonable doubt that Spencer had dominion and control over the whiskey. Mere knowledge by Spencer of the commission of the crime by another does not prove his guilt, nor does mere presence at the scene. Possession of the whiskey by Spencer must be proved by the prosecution by some showing of dominion and control.” Brief for Appellant, pp. 2-3.

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)". Which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant?

Choices:
not ascertained
poor + wards of state
presumed poor
presumed wealthy
clear indication of wealth in opinion
other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy

Answer: 0