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Chapter 277

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277

Indictments and Proceedings Before Trial

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