Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 277 - Indictments and Proceedings Before Trial
Section 58 - Larceny; Venue

Section 58. Larceny, whether at common law or as defined by section thirty of chapter two hundred and sixty-six, may be prosecuted and punished in any county where the defendant had possession of the property alleged to have been stolen.

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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 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