General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART IV CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGSIN CRIMINAL CASES |
TITLE II. PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES |
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 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33 |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 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33 |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 Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7 |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 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33 |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 |