State v. Striggle

202 Iowa 1318, 210 N.W. 137 (1926)

Facts

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.