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Section 1Issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors; attendance at sittings of court
Section 1ACompletion of investigations by grand juries; notice; order
Section 2Suffolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2AIssuance of writs of venire facias for special grand jury
Section 2BMiddlesex county; issuance of letters of venire for grand jurors
Section 2CHampden county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2DPlymouth county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2EWorcester county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2FNorfolk county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2GEssex county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 2HBristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Section 3Drawing and summoning of grand jurors
Section 3ASuffolk county; impanelling grand jurors
Section 4Deficiency of grand jurors
Section 5Impanelling and oath
Section 6Affirmation in lieu of oath
Section 7 to 10Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
Section 11Re-summoning at same sitting
Section 12, 13Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
Section 14Grand juror serving as traverse juror
Section 14ARight to counsel; grand jury proceedings
Section 15Discharge of accused person not indicted
Section 16Repealed, 1970, 888, Sec. 7
Section 17Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 33
Section 18Circumstances of the act
Section 19Name of accused person; description by fictitious name; entry of true name
Section 20Time and place of commission of crime
Section 21Means
Section 22Description of written instrument; variance
Section 23Description of money
Section 24Description of value or price
Section 25Description of ownership
Section 26Description of public place
Section 27Description of animal
Section 28Description of judicial proceedings
Section 29Criminal responsibility
Section 30Intent to injure or defraud; general allegation
Section 31Alternative allegations
Section 32Continuing offenses
Section 33Unnecessary and immaterial allegations
Section 34Immaterial defects
Section 35Variance; prejudice
Section 35ARepealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 35
Section 36Scope of word “oath”
Section 37Negativing excuses, exceptions or provisos
Section 38Allegations, bill of particulars, presumption and proof in prosecutions involving controlled substances
Section 39Construction of words used in indictment
Section 40Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
Section 41Indictment for criminal dealing with personal property
Section 42Prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in concealment of stolen property
Section 43Indictment for perjury
Section 44Indictment for subornation of perjury
Section 45Indictment for unnatural and lascivious acts
Section 46Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 37
Section 47Arraignment; sentence; assignment of counsel
Section 47ADefenses or objections
Section 48, 49Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 44
Section 50Repealed, 1936, 161, Sec. 1
Section 51, 52Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 40
Section 53District attorneys; authority and duty as to transferred cases
Section 54Custody and delivery of prisoner
Section 55Compensation of counsel of prisoner
Section 56Expenses of counsel of prisoner
Section 57Prosecutions of crimes committed near boundary line of counties, etc.; crimes committed on sea
Section 57AVenue in cases where crime was committed without county or territorial jurisdiction of court
Section 58Larceny
Section 58ABuying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealment of stolen or embezzled property
Section 58A1/2Computer offenses; place of prosecution
Section 58BEmbezzlement or fraudulent conversion or appropriation by fiduciaries
Section 59Obtaining money or personal chattel by false pretences
Section 59ATransmission of false reports, location of explosives, etc.
Section 60Homicide if injury is in one county and death in another
Section 61Crime committed at sea, etc., resulting in death in county
Section 62Crime committed in commonwealth resulting in death outside commonwealth
Section 62AViolations of chapter 209A; jurisdiction
Section 62BStalking; jurisdiction
Section 62CVenue for prosecution of violations of Sec. 35A of chapter 266
Section 63General provisions
Section 64Limitation of new indictment against corporation after abatement or defeat of former indictment
Section 65Service of copy of indictment for murder on prisoner, etc.
Section 66List of jurors to prisoners; process for witnesses
Section 67Furnishing person in custody, etc., with copy of indictment
Section 68Issuance of subpoenas by attorney general and district attorneys
Section 69Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Section 70Recognizance of witnesses
Section 70ARepealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Section 70BPlacing cases on file; statement of reasons
Section 70CCivil infractions
Section 71 to 72ARepealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Section 73Compensation for confinement of persons discharged
Section 74 to 77Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 42
Section 78Criminal proceedings as no bar to civil action
Section 79Application of annexed forms; schedule