Gordon v. Johnson

In this case the recorder, in shaping the proceedings, seems to have had in mind probation laws, or else the method which was formeriy practiced in England, under what was known as “the ticket of leave system,” when that country sent convicts to Australia, and granted some of them tickets of leave upon certain conditions. But, about 1840, the colonies declined to receive more of the convicts, and, after a trial of the plan at home, it was substantially abolished, or at least changed to the license sjrstem, dependent on conduct during imprisonment.

The facts are sufficiently stated in the…