Massachusetts Chapter 277 — Indictments and Proceedings Before Trial

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 1— Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 1A— Completion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2— Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2A— Issuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2B— Middlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2C— Hampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2D— Plymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2E— Worcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2F— Norfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2G— Essex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 2H— Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 3— Drawing and summoning of grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 3A— Suffolk county; impanelling grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 4— Deficiency of grand jurors
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 5— Impanelling and oath
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 6— Affirmation in lieu of oath
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 11— Re-summoning at same sitting
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 14— Grand juror serving as traverse juror
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 14A— Right to counsel; grand jury proceedings
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 15— Discharge of accused person not indicted
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 16— Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 17— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 18— Circumstances of the act
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 19— Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 20— Time and place of commission of crime
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 21— Means
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 22— Description of written instrument; variance
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 23— Description of money
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 24— Description of value or price
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 25— Description of ownership
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 26— Description of public place
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 27— Description of animal
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 28— Description of judicial proceedings
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 29— Criminal responsibility
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 30— Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 31— Alternative allegations
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 32— Continuing offenses
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 33— Unnecessary and immaterial allegations
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 34— Immaterial defects
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 35— Variance; prejudice
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 35A— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 35
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 36— Scope of word ''oath''
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 37— Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 38— Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 39— Construction of certain words used in indictment
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 40— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 41— Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 42— Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 43— Indictment for perjury
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 44— Indictment for subornation of perjury
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 45— Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 46— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 47— Arraignment in capital cases; sentence; assignment of counsel
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 47A— Defenses or objections; time of motion
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 50— Repealed, 1936, 161, Sec. 1
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 53— District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 54— Custody and delivery of prisoner
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 55— Compensation of counsel of prisoner
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 56— Expenses of counsel of prisoner
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 57— Venue for prosecution of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 57A— Venue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 58— Larceny; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 58A— Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 58B— Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 59— Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 59A— Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 60— Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 61— Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 62— Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 62A— Violations of chapter 209A; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 62B— Stalking; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 62C— Violations of Sec. 35A of chapter 266; venue
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 63— Limitation of criminal prosecutions
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 64— Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 65— Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 66— List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 67— Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 68— Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 69— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 70— Recognizance of witnesses
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 70A— Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 70B— Placing cases on file; statement of reasons
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 70C— Treatment of violation of ordinance, by-law or misdemeanor offense as a civil infraction
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 73— Compensation for confinement of persons discharged
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 78— Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, § 79— Application of annexed forms; schedule