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PART IV CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGSIN CRIMINAL CASES(Chapters 263 through 280)
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- Section 7 to 10 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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- Section 12, 13 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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- Section 16 Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7
- Section 17 Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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 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; sentence; assignment of counsel
- Section 47A Defenses or objections
- 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 Prosecutions 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
- Section 58A Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property
- Section 58A1/2 Computer offenses; place of prosecution
- Section 58B Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries
- Section 59 Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences
- Section 59A Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.
- Section 60 Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another
- Section 61 Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county
- Section 62 Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth
- Section 62A Violations of chapter 209A; jurisdiction
- Section 62B Stalking; jurisdiction
- Section 62C Venue for prosecution of violations of Sec. 35A of chapter 266
- Section 63 General provisions
- 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 Civil infractions
- 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
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