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Iowa Code § 725.5 (2026)
Keeping gambling houses
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Any person who keeps a house, shop, or place resorted to for the purpose of gambling, or permits any person in any house, shop, or other place under the person’s control or care to conduct bookmaking or to play at cards, dice, faro, roulette, equality, punchboard, slot machine or other game for money or other thing, commits a serious misdemeanor. [C51, §2721; R60, §4363; C73, §4026; C97, §4962; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13198; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §726.1; C79, 81, §725.5] Referred to in §709A.1, 725.6, 725.15
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Cited in 8
cases, 1960–2000 · leading case: State v. Robinson, 618 N.W.2d 306 (Iowa 2000).
State v. Robinson, 618 N.W.2d 306 (Iowa 2000). “1267, § 5 (emphasis added) (codified at Iowa Code § 725.5 (1975)). The only difference in the current exemption is that the word "Act" has been changed to "chapter.”
State v. Ramos, 149 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 1967). “Defendant was charged by county attorney’s information as follows: “[A]ccuses John Ramos of the crime of Violation of Section 725.5, 1962 Code of Iowa, to-wit: Obscene Literature, committed as follows: “For that the said John Ramos on or about the 10 day of December, A.”
Smith v. United States, 431 U.S. 291 (1977). “Iowa Code §§ 725.5 and 725.6 (1973). In 1973, however, the Supreme Court of Iowa, in response to the standards enunciated in Miller v.”
State v. Soc. Hygiene, Inc., 156 N.W.2d 288 (Iowa 1968). “The State has appealed from the judgment of the municipal court of Cedar Falls sustaining defendant’s demurrer and motion to quash an information charging violation of section 725.5, Code of Iowa by “offering for sale by vending machine articles or things designed or intended to…”
State v. Wilt, 333 N.W.2d 457 (Iowa 1983). “15: Sections 725.5 to 725.10 and section 725.”
State v. Lavin, 204 N.W.2d 844 (Iowa 1973). “Section 725.5 of the Code, 1971, provides in pertinent part: Obscene literature — articles for immoral use.”
Four Star Publications, Inc. v. Erbe, 181 F. Supp. 483 (S.D. Iowa 1960). “Allegations made by the Attorney General that the magazines of plaintiffs on the newsstands on September 1, 1959 were obscene under Section 725.5 of the Iowa Criminal Code, were on motion stricken.”
State v. Lavin, 218 N.W.2d 925 (Iowa 1974). “PER CURIAM: The State appeals from a district court judgment sustaining defendants’ demurrer to an information charging defendants with the sale of obscene literature in violation of § 725.5, The Code. We affirm. This is the second time this, case has been in our court.”
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