Massachusetts Code — 277
Browse 78 sections in division 277 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court
- § 1A. Completion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order
- § 2. Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2A. Issuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury
- § 2B. Middlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors
- § 2C. Hampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2D. Plymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2E. Worcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2F. Norfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2G. Essex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 2H. Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- § 3. Drawing and summoning of grand jurors
- § 3A. Suffolk county; impanelling grand jurors
- § 4. Deficiency of grand jurors
- § 5. Impanelling and oath
- § 6. Affirmation in lieu of oath
- § 11. Re-summoning at same sitting
- § 14. Grand juror serving as traverse juror
- § 14A. Right to counsel; grand jury proceedings
- § 15. Discharge of accused person not indicted
- § 18. Circumstances of the act
- § 19. Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name
- § 20. Time and place of commission of crime
- § 21. Means
- § 22. Description of written instrument; variance
- § 23. Description of money
- § 24. Description of value or price
- § 25. Description of ownership
- § 26. Description of public place
- § 27. Description of animal
- § 28. Description of judicial proceedings
- § 29. Criminal responsibility
- § 30. Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation
- § 31. Alternative allegations
- § 32. Continuing offenses
- § 33. Unnecessary and immaterial allegations
- § 34. Immaterial defects
- § 35. Variance; prejudice
- § 36. Scope of word ''oath''
- § 37. Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos
- § 38. Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances
- § 39. Construction of certain words used in indictment
- § 41. Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property
- § 42. Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property
- § 43. Indictment for perjury
- § 44. Indictment for subornation of perjury
- § 45. Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts
- § 47. Arraignment in capital cases; sentence; assignment of counsel
- § 47A. Defenses or objections; time of motion
- § 53. District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases
- § 54. Custody and delivery of prisoner
- § 55. Compensation of counsel of prisoner
- § 56. Expenses of counsel of prisoner
- § 57. Venue for prosecution of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea
- § 57A. Venue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court
- § 58. Larceny; venue
- § 58A. Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property; venue
- § 58B. Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries; venue
- § 59. Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences; venue
- § 59A. Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.; venue
- § 60. Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another; venue
- § 61. Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county; venue
- § 62. Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth; venue
- § 62A. Violations of chapter 209A; venue
- § 62B. Stalking; venue
- § 62C. Violations of Sec. 35A of chapter 266; venue
- § 63. Limitation of criminal prosecutions
- § 64. Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment
- § 65. Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc.
- § 66. List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses
- § 67. Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment
- § 68. Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys
- § 70. Recognizance of witnesses
- § 70B. Placing cases on file; statement of reasons
- § 70C. Treatment of violation of ordinance, by-law or misdemeanor offense as a civil infraction
- § 73. Compensation for confinement of persons discharged
- § 78. Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action
- § 79. Application of annexed forms; schedule