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 11 - Re-Summoning at Same Sitting
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 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 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 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 47 - Arraignment in Capital Cases; Sentence; Assignment of Counsel
Section 47a - Defenses or Objections; Time of Motion
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 70 - Recognizance of Witnesses
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 73 - Compensation for Confinement of Persons Discharged
Section 78 - Criminal Proceedings as No Bar to Civil Action
Section 79 - Application of Annexed Forms; Schedule