State v. Gribble

In State v. Gribble (1970), 24 Ohio St.2d 85, 88, 263 N.E.2d 904, the Ohio Supreme Court found inadequate an officer's testimony that the scales in question "had a seal and a wire through them that they had been checked." Id. at 89. The Gribble court added, however, "that all that need be shown by the prosecution on this point is that the seal affixed to the scale is official and is of the type customarily used by the sealers enumerated in R.C. 4513.33. If the seal is as thus described, the law rebuttably presumes that the sealer performed his statutory duties in accordance with the requirements of that section." Id.