Section 57. A crime committed on or within one hundred rods of the boundary line of two counties may be alleged to have been committed, and may be prosecuted and punished, in either county; and if committed on or within fifty rods of the boundary line of two judicial districts, it may be alleged to have been committed, and may be prosecuted and punished, in either district. A crime committed upon the sea within one league of the shore may be prosecuted and punished in an adjacent county.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases
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 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 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 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 62c - Violations of Sec. 35a of Chapter 266; Venue
Section 63 - Limitation of Criminal Prosecutions
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 73 - Compensation for Confinement of Persons Discharged