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2019 Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Chapter 278 - Trials and Proceedings Before Judgment
Section 4 - Oaths of Jurors
Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 278 § 4 (2019)
Section 4. The following oath shall be administered to the jurors for the trial of all criminal cases which are not capital:
You shall well and truly try the issue between the commonwealth and the defendant, (or the defendants, as the case may be,) according to your evidence; so help you God.
The following oath shall be administered to the jurors for the trial of capital cases:
You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between the commonwealth and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, according to your evidence; so help you God.
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