Chapter 277

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Chapter 277: INDICTMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL

• Section 1 Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court
• Section 1A Completion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order
• Section 2 Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2A Issuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury
• Section 2B Middlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors
• Section 2C Hampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2D Plymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2E Worcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2F Norfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2G Essex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 2H Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
• Section 3 Drawing and summoning of grand jurors
• Section 3A Suffolk county; impanelling grand jurors
• Section 4 Deficiency of grand jurors
• Section 5 Impanelling and oath
• Section 6 Affirmation in lieu of oath
• Section 7 to 10 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
• Section 11 Re-summoning at same sitting
• Section 12, 13 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
• Section 14 Grand juror serving as traverse juror
• Section 14A Right to counsel; grand jury proceedings
• Section 15 Discharge of accused person not indicted
• Section 16 Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7
• Section 17 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
• Section 18 Circumstances of the act
• Section 19 Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name
• Section 20 Time and place of commission of crime
• Section 21 Means
• Section 22 Description of written instrument; variance
• Section 23 Description of money
• Section 24 Description of value or price
• Section 25 Description of ownership
• Section 26 Description of public place
• Section 27 Description of animal
• Section 28 Description of judicial proceedings
• Section 29 Criminal responsibility
• Section 30 Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation
• Section 31 Alternative allegations
• Section 32 Continuing offenses
• Section 33 Unnecessary and immaterial allegations
• Section 34 Immaterial defects
• Section 35 Variance; prejudice
• Section 35A Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 35
• Section 36 Scope of word ''oath''
• Section 37 Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos
• Section 38 Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances
• Section 39 Construction of certain words used in indictment
• Section 40 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
• Section 41 Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property
• Section 42 Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property
• Section 43 Indictment for perjury
• Section 44 Indictment for subornation of perjury
• Section 45 Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts
• Section 46 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
• Section 47 Arraignment in capital cases; sentence; assignment of counsel
• Section 47A Defenses or objections; time of motion
• Section 48, 49 Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 44
• Section 50 Repealed, 1936, 161, Sec. 1
• Section 51, 52 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 40
• Section 53 District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases
• Section 54 Custody and delivery of prisoner
• Section 55 Compensation of counsel of prisoner
• Section 56 Expenses of counsel of prisoner
• Section 57 Venue for prosecution of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea
• Section 57A Venue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court
• Section 58 Larceny; venue
• Section 58A Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property; venue
• Section 58A1/2 Computer offenses; venue
• Section 58B Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries; venue
• Section 59 Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences; venue
• Section 59A Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.; venue
• Section 60 Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another; venue
• Section 61 Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county; venue
• Section 62 Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth; venue
• Section 62A Violations of chapter 209A; venue
• Section 62B Stalking; venue
• Section 62C Violations of Sec. 35A of chapter 266; venue
• Section 63 Limitation of criminal prosecutions
• Section 64 Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment
• Section 65 Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc.
• Section 66 List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses
• Section 67 Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment
• Section 68 Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys
• Section 69 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
• Section 70 Recognizance of witnesses
• Section 70A Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
• Section 70B Placing cases on file; statement of reasons
• Section 70C Treatment of violation of ordinance, by-law or misdemeanor offense as a civil infraction
• Section 71 to 72A Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
• Section 73 Compensation for confinement of persons discharged
• Section 74 to 77 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
• Section 78 Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action
• Section 79 Application of annexed forms; schedule