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Section 1 - Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors; Attendance at Sittings of Court - Section 1. The clerk of the courts for each county,...
Section 1a - Completion of Investigations by Grand Juries; Notice; Order - Section 1A. Upon a written notice by the attorney general...
Section 2 - Suffolk County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2. The clerk of the superior court for criminal...
Section 2a - Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Special Grand Jury - Section 2A. The clerk of the courts in any county,...
Section 2b - Middlesex County; Issuance of Letters of Venire for Grand Jurors - Section 2B. The clerk of courts in Middlesex county shall,...
Section 2c - Hampden County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2C. The clerk of the court for Hampden county...
Section 2d - Plymouth County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2D. The clerk of the court for Plymouth County...
Section 2e - Worcester County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2E. The clerk of the court for Worcester county...
Section 2f - Norfolk County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2F. The clerk of the court for Norfolk county...
Section 2g - Essex County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2G. The clerk of the court for Essex county...
Section 2h - Bristol County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2H. The clerk of the court for Bristol county...
Section 3 - Drawing and Summoning of Grand Jurors - Section 3. Grand jurors shall be drawn, summoned and returned...
Section 3a - Suffolk County; Impanelling Grand Jurors - Section 3A. On the day when veniremen are summoned pursuant...
Section 4 - Deficiency of Grand Jurors - Section 4. If there is a deficiency of grand jurors,...
Section 5 - Impanelling and Oath - Section 5. The clerk of the court shall prepare an...
Section 6 - Affirmation in Lieu of Oath - Section 6. If a person who is returned as a...
Section 11 - Re-Summoning at Same Sitting - Section 11. If the grand jury are dismissed before the...
Section 14 - Grand Juror Serving as Traverse Juror - Section 14. No member of the grand jury which has...
Section 14a - Right to Counsel; Grand Jury Proceedings - Section 14A. Any person shall have the right to consult...
Section 15 - Discharge of Accused Person Not Indicted - Section 15. The grand jury shall, during its session, make...
Section 18 - Circumstances of the Act - Section 18. The circumstances of the act may be stated...
Section 19 - Name of Accused Person; Description by Fictitious Name; Entry of True Name - Section 19. If the name of an accused person is...
Section 20 - Time and Place of Commission of Crime - Section 20. The time and place of the commission of...
Section 21 - Means - Section 21. The means by which a crime is committed...
Section 22 - Description of Written Instrument; Variance - Section 22. If an allegation relative to a written instrument...
Section 23 - Description of Money - Section 23. If an allegation relative to any bullion, money,...
Section 24 - Description of Value or Price - Section 24. The value or price of property need not...
Section 25 - Description of Ownership - Section 25. If an indictment for a crime involving the...
Section 26 - Description of Public Place - Section 26. If one element of the criminality of an...
Section 27 - Description of Animal - Section 27. In an indictment for the larceny of an...
Section 28 - Description of Judicial Proceedings - Section 28. If it is necessary to set forth the...
Section 29 - Criminal Responsibility - Section 29. An allegation that the defendant committed the act...
Section 30 - Intent to Injure or Defraud; General Allegation - Section 30. If an intent to injure or defraud is...
Section 31 - Alternative Allegations - Section 31. Different means or different intents by or with...
Section 32 - Continuing Offenses - Section 32. An allegation that a crime was committed or...
Section 33 - Unnecessary and Immaterial Allegations - Section 33. Presumptions and conclusions of law, matters of which...
Section 34 - Immaterial Defects - Section 34. An indictment shall not be dismissed or be...
Section 35 - Variance; Prejudice - Section 35. A defendant shall not be acquitted on the...
Section 36 - Scope of Word ''oath'' - Section 36. The word ''oath'' as used in an indictment...
Section 37 - Negativing Excuses, Exceptions or Provisos - Section 37. An excuse, exception or proviso not stated in...
Section 38 - Allegations, Bill of Particulars, Presumption and Proof in Prosecutions Involving Controlled Substances - Section 38. In a prosecution under any provision of chapter...
Section 39 - Construction of Certain Words Used in Indictment - Section 39. The words used in an indictment may, except...
Section 41 - Indictment for Criminal Dealing With Personal Property - Section 41. In an indictment for criminal dealing with personal...
Section 42 - Prosecutions for Buying, Receiving or Aiding in Concealment of Stolen Property - Section 42. In prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in...
Section 43 - Indictment for Perjury - Section 43. In an indictment for perjury alleged to have...
Section 44 - Indictment for Subornation of Perjury - Section 44. If, in an indictment for subornation of perjury...
Section 45 - Indictment for Unnatural and Lascivious Acts - Section 45. In an indictment under section thirty-five of chapter...
Section 47 - Arraignment in Capital Cases; Sentence; Assignment of Counsel - Section 47. If a prisoner, under indictment for a capital...
Section 47a - Defenses or Objections; Time of Motion - Section 47A. In a criminal case, any defense or objection...
Section 53 - District Attorneys; Authority and Duty as to Transferred Cases - Section 53. If a case is transferred for plea or...
Section 54 - Custody and Delivery of Prisoner - Section 54. If a change of venue is ordered, the...
Section 55 - Compensation of Counsel of Prisoner - Section 55. A justice of the court, sitting at the...
Section 56 - Expenses of Counsel of Prisoner - Section 56. The reasonable expenses incurred and paid by counsel...
Section 57 - Venue for Prosecution of Crimes Committed Near Boundary Line of Counties, etc.; Crimes Committed on Sea - Section 57. A crime committed on or within one hundred...
Section 57a - Venue in Cases Where Crime Was Committed Without County or Territorial Jurisdiction of Court - Section 57A. A defendant shall not be discharged for want...
Section 58 - Larceny; Venue - Section 58. Larceny, whether at common law or as defined...
Section 58a - Buying, Receiving, Concealing or Aiding in Concealment of Stolen or Embezzled Property; Venue - Section 58A. The crime of buying, receiving or concealing a...
Section 58a1/2 - Computer Offenses; Venue - Section 58A1/2. The crimes described in sections thirty-three A and...
Section 58b - Embezzlement or Fraudulent Conversion or Appropriation by Fiduciaries; Venue - Section 58B. The crime of embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or...
Section 59 - Obtaining Money or Personal Chattel by False Pretences; Venue - Section 59. The crime of obtaining money or a personal...
Section 59a - Transmission of False Reports, Location of Explosives, etc.; Venue - Section 59A. The crime described in section fourteen of chapter...
Section 60 - Homicide if Injury Is in One County and Death in Another; Venue - Section 60. If a mortal wound is given, or if...
Section 61 - Crime Committed at Sea, etc., Resulting in Death in County; Venue - Section 61. If a mortal wound is given, or if...
Section 62 - Crime Committed in Commonwealth Resulting in Death Outside Commonwealth; Venue - Section 62. If a mortal wound is given, or if...
Section 62a - Violations of Chapter 209a; Venue - Section 62A. Any criminal violation of chapter two hundred and...
Section 62b - Stalking; Venue - Section 62B. The crime of stalking, as set forth in...
Section 62c - Violations of Sec. 35a of Chapter 266; Venue - Section 62C. A violation of section 35A of chapter 266...
Section 63 - Limitation of Criminal Prosecutions - Section 63. An indictment for murder may be found at...
Section 64 - Limitation of New Indictment Against Corporation After Abatement or Defeat of Former Indictment - Section 64. If an indictment, duly found and returned within...
Section 65 - Service of Copy of Indictment for Murder on Prisoner, Etc. - Section 65. After the finding of an indictment for murder,...
Section 66 - List of Jurors to Prisoners; Process for Witnesses - Section 66. A prisoner indicted for a crime punishable with...
Section 67 - Furnishing Person in Custody, etc., With Copy of Indictment - Section 67. Whoever, having been indicted for felony, is under...
Section 68 - Issuance of Subpoenas by Attorney General and District Attorneys - Section 68. The attorney general and district attorneys may issue...
Section 70 - Recognizance of Witnesses - Section 70. A justice of a court of record may...
Section 70b - Placing Cases on File; Statement of Reasons - Section 70B. Except as otherwise provided by law, a criminal...
Section 70c - Treatment of Violation of Ordinance, By-Law or Misdemeanor Offense as a Civil Infraction - Section 70C. Upon oral motion by the commonwealth or the...
Section 73 - Compensation for Confinement of Persons Discharged - Section 73. Any person in the commonwealth kept in confinement...
Section 78 - Criminal Proceedings as No Bar to Civil Action - Section 78. No proceedings against a person for a crime...
Section 79 - Application of Annexed Forms; Schedule - Section 79. The provisions of this chapter, and the forms...