Striggles (D) installed some vending machines. The Supreme Court of Iowa had ruled that the machines were gambling devices prior to D installing them. In a separate and later ruling a lower municipal court held that they were not gambling devices. D had letters from the mayor and from the county attorney's office which stated that these machines were not gambling devices. A grand jury decided that the machines were gambling devices and indicted D for running a gambling establishment. D was convicted of keeping a gambling house.