Chapter 277 - INDICTMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
- Section 277:1 - Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court
- Section 277:1A - Completion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order
- Section 277:2 - Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:2A - Issuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury
- Section 277:2B - Middlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors
- Section 277:2C - Hampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:2D - Plymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:2E - Worcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for veniremen
- Section 277:2F - Norfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:2G - Essex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:2H - Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
- Section 277:3 - Drawing and summoning of grand jurors
- Section 277:3A - Suffolk county; impanelling grand jurors
- Section 277:4 - Deficiency of grand jurors
- Section 277:5 - Impanelling and oath
- Section 277:6 - Affirmation in lieu of oath
- Section 277:11 - Re-summoning at same sitting
- Section 277:14 - Grand juror serving as traverse juror
- Section 277:14A - Right to counsel; grand jury proceedings
- Section 277:15 - Discharge of accused person not indicted
- Section 277:18 - Circumstances of the act
- Section 277:19 - Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name
- Section 277:20 - Time and place of commission of crime
- Section 277:21 - Means
- Section 277:22 - Description of written instrument; variance
- Section 277:23 - Description of money
- Section 277:24 - Description of value or price
- Section 277:25 - Description of ownership
- Section 277:26 - Description of public place
- Section 277:27 - Description of animal
- Section 277:28 - Description of judicial proceedings
- Section 277:29 - Criminal responsibility
- Section 277:30 - Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation
- Section 277:31 - Alternative allegations
- Section 277:32 - Continuing offenses
- Section 277:33 - Unnecessary and immaterial allegations
- Section 277:34 - Immaterial defects
- Section 277:35 - Variance; prejudice
- Section 277:36 - Scope of word "oath"
- Section 277:37 - Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos
- Section 277:38 - Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances
- Section 277:39 - Construction of words used in indictment
- Section 277:41 - Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property
- Section 277:42 - Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property
- Section 277:43 - Indictment for perjury
- Section 277:44 - Indictment for subornation of perjury
- Section 277:45 - Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts
- Section 277:47 - Arraignment; sentence; assignment of counsel
- Section 277:47A - Defenses or objections
- Section 277:53 - District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases
- Section 277:54 - Custody and delivery of prisoner
- Section 277:55 - Compensation of counsel of prisoner
- Section 277:56 - Expenses of counsel of prisoner
- Section 277:57 - Prosecutions of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea
- Section 277:57A - Venue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court
- Section 277:58 - Larceny
- Section 277:58A - Buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property
- Section 277:58A 1/2 - Crimes involving electronically processed or stored data; place of prosecution
- Section 277:58B - Embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries
- Section 277:59 - Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences
- Section 277:59A - Transmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.
- Section 277:60 - Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another
- Section 277:61 - Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county
- Section 277:62 - Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth
- Section 277:62A - Jurisdiction for criminal violations of chapter 209A
- Section 277:62B - Stalking; jurisdiction
- Section 277:62C - Violations of sec. 266:35A; jurisdiction
- Section 277:63 - [Effective Until 9/18/2024] Limitations of criminal prosecutions; general provisions
- Section 277:63 - [Effective 9/18/2024] [Effective Until 11/6/2024] Limitations of criminal prosecutions; general provisions
- Section 277:63 - [Effective 11/6/2024] Limitations of criminal prosecutions; general provisions
- Section 277:64 - Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment
- Section 277:65 - Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc.
- Section 277:66 - List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses
- Section 277:67 - Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment
- Section 277:68 - Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys
- Section 277:70 - Recognizance of witnesses
- Section 277:70B - Placing cases on file; statement of reasons
- Section 277:70C - Civil infractions
- Section 277:73 - Compensation for confinement of persons discharged
- Section 277:78 - Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action
- Section 277:79 - Application of annexed forms; schedule