CHAPTER 277. INDICTMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL.
Chapter 277, Section 1. Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court.
Chapter 277, Section 1A. Completion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order.
Chapter 277, Section 2. Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2A. Issuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury.
Chapter 277, Section 2B. Middlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2C. Hampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2D. Plymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2E. Worcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for veniremen.
Chapter 277, Section 2F. Norfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2G. Essex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 2H. Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 3. Drawing and summoning of grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 3A. Suffolk county; impanelling grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 4. Deficiency of grand jurors.
Chapter 277, Section 5. Impanelling and oath.
Chapter 277, Section 6. Affirmation in lieu of oath.
Chapter 277, Section 7--10. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33.
Chapter 277, Section 11. Re-summoning at same sitting.
Chapter 277, Section 12--13. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33.
Chapter 277, Section 14. Grand juror serving as traverse juror.
Chapter 277, Section 14A. Right to counsel; grand jury proceedings.
Chapter 277, Section 15. Discharge of accused person not indicted.
Chapter 277, Section 16. Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7.
Chapter 277, Section 17. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33.
Chapter 277, Section 18. Circumstances of the act.
Chapter 277, Section 19. Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name.
Chapter 277, Section 20. Time and place of commission of crime.
Chapter 277, Section 21. Means.
Chapter 277, Section 22. Description of written instrument; variance.
Chapter 277, Section 23. Description of money.
Chapter 277, Section 24. Description of value or price.
Chapter 277, Section 25. Description of ownership.
Chapter 277, Section 26. Description of public place.
Chapter 277, Section 27. Description of animal.
Chapter 277, Section 28. Description of judicial proceedings.
Chapter 277, Section 29. Criminal responsibility.
Chapter 277, Section 30. Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation.
Chapter 277, Section 31. Alternative allegations.
Chapter 277, Section 32. Continuing offenses.
Chapter 277, Section 33. Unnecessary and immaterial allegations.
Chapter 277, Section 34. Immaterial defects.
Chapter 277, Section 35. Variance; prejudice.
Chapter 277, Section 35A. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 35.
Chapter 277, Section 36. Scope of word "oath".
Chapter 277, Section 37. Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos.
Chapter 277, Section 38. Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances.
Chapter 277, Section 39. Construction of words used in indictment.
Chapter 277, Section 40. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37.
Chapter 277, Section 41. Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property.
Chapter 277, Section 42. Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property.
Chapter 277, Section 43. Indictment for perjury.
Chapter 277, Section 44. Indictment for subornation of perjury.
Chapter 277, Section 45. Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts.
Chapter 277, Section 46. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37.
Chapter 277, Section 47. Arraignment; sentence; assignment of counsel.
Chapter 277, Section 47A. Defenses or objections.
Chapter 277, Section 48, 49. Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 44.
Chapter 277, Section 50. Repealed, 1936, 161, Sec. 1.
Chapter 277, Section 51, 52. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 40.
Chapter 277, Section 53. District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases.
Chapter 277, Section 54. Custody and delivery of prisoner.
Chapter 277, Section 55. Compensation of counsel of prisoner.
Chapter 277, Section 56. Expenses of counsel of prisoner.
Chapter 277, Section 57. Prosecutions of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea.
Chapter 277, Section 57A. Venue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court.
Chapter 277, Section 58. Larceny.
Chapter 277, Section 58A. Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property.
Chapter 277, Section 58A½. Crimes involving electronically processed or stored data; place of prosecution.
Chapter 277, Section 58B. Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries.
Chapter 277, Section 59. Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences.
Chapter 277, Section 59A. Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc..
Chapter 277, Section 60. Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another.
Chapter 277, Section 61. Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county.
Chapter 277, Section 62. Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth.
Chapter 277, Section 62A. Jurisdiction for criminal violations of Chapter 209A.
Chapter 277, Section 62B. Stalking; jurisdiction.
Chapter 277, Section 63. Limitations of criminal prosecutions; general provisions.
Chapter 277, Section 64. Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment.
Chapter 277, Section 65. Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc.
Chapter 277, Section 66. List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses.
Chapter 277, Section 67. Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment.
Chapter 277, Section 68. Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys.
Chapter 277, Section 69. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42.
Chapter 277, Section 70. Recognizance of witnesses.
Chapter 277, Section 70A. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42.
Chapter 277, Section 70B. Placing cases on file; statement of reasons.
Chapter 277, Section 70C. Civil infractions.
Chapter 277, Section 71--72A. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42.
Chapter 277, Section 73. Compensation for confinement of persons discharged.
Chapter 277, Section 74--77. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42.
Chapter 277, Section 78. Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action.
Chapter 277, Section 79. Application of annexed forms; schedule.
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