On today’s date in 1921, Jackson County Deputy John L. Ivey was shot and killed by one or two men when he attempted to search their car for moonshine whiskey.
Both men were apprehended, and one was convicted of manslaughter.
Ivey was survived by a wife and three-year-old son. He was 30 when he died.
Prohibition began in 1920, simultaneously outlawing alcohol and starting a black market for drink. By the first fiscal year of 1921, there were 29,114 cases of violation of the eighteenth amendment. The amendment was repealed in 1933.
