Indictments and Proceedings Before Trial

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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To 10 - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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13 - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7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Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33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Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 35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 Certain 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 in Capital Cases; Sentence; Assignment of Counsel

Section
47a

Defenses or Objections; Time of Motion

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

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
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

Treatment of Violation of Ordinance, By-Law or Misdemeanor Offense as a Civil Infraction

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