State v. Rand

Bliss, J.-

-On July 9, 1945, the grand jury of Polk County, Iowa, indicted the appellant and Knote for “keeping a gambling house as defined in Sections 13198 and 13199 of the 1939 Code of Iowa,” and charged that they “kept a building, house, and place, resorted to for the purpose of gambling and permitted and suffered persons in said building, house, and place, under their care and control, to play at cards, dice, and slot machines for money.” The indictment was, in substance, in the words of said section 13198 (section 726.1, Code of 1946). Section 13199, Code, 1939 (section 726.2, Code,…