People v. Alba

it is said in State v. Ryan, 34 Wash. 597 [76 Pac. 90], that:

“But appellant claims that it should have alleged that the $20 was money and of some value. We think it would be difficult to define the meaning of the words ‘twenty dollars’ if they do not mean that sum of money. Everybody in this country knows that the word ‘dollar’ means a certain amount of money. ...”

It has been uniformly held that the use of the word “dollar,” when applied to United States circulating medium, means a fixed and definite value of one hundred cents. (McDonald v. State, 2 Ga. App. 633 [58 S. E. 1067, 1068]; Maxwell…