Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 79
Section 79. The provisions of this chapter, and the forms hereto annexed, shall apply as well to complaints as to indictments, and such forms shall be sufficient in cases to which they are applicable. In other cases, forms as nearly like the forms hereto annexed as the nature of the cases and the provisions of law will allow may be used; but any other form of indictment or complaint authorized by law may be used. SCHEDULE OF FORMS OF PLEADINGS. Caption and Commencement of Indictment. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. (Suffolk,) to wit: At the Superior Court holden at (Boston,) within and for the County of (Suffolk,) for the transaction of criminal business, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand, etc. The jurors for the said Commonwealth on their oath present Caption and Commencement of Complaint. {WISC}(To a Police, District or Municipal Court.) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. (Suffolk,) to wit: To the court of holden at for the transaction of criminal business, within the County of , A. B. of in behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the day of in the year , on oath complains that (To a Trial Justice.) To A. B., a Trial Justice in and for the County of and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, C. D. of (etc. as in form above). (To a Justice of the Peace commissioned to Issue Warrants.) To A. B., Justice of the Peace in and for the County of and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, designated and commissioned to issue warrants in criminal cases, C. D. of (etc. as in form above). (If the statute requires a particular person to make complaint, this should be alleged.)