If you rob a bank today and tomorrow they decide to legalise bank robbery you are still eligible for prosecution. All laws have a statute of limitations in which you can be prosecuted.The law went away but it DID EXIST when YOU commited the crime. You commited the act when the law was in effect. it is as simple as that. How many different ways do we need to explain it to you?

mike

The only saving grace is whether or not the prosecutor decides to go after you. They likely would ignore it depending on the situation but why be dumb enough to take the risk.

Remember Prohibition?  Once it was cancelled the courts still moved forward with those who were under indictment.

Now you know and you can spread the knowledge.  If you do educate somebody on this topic and they tell you to "eat shit," how will you react?

Quoted: Were any people charged with illegal alcohol production/consumption/etc. after prohibition was repealed?

I haven't searched for a source - I'm basing my "yes" from a textbook I used in college.  

Quoted: Well thank you for those reasonable people who replied. As I didn't know. Now for you other asses, eat shit. OK I did a goof up, but didn't realize the seriousness of it or I wouldn't have told anyone here.

Do you hear that slight cracking sound?  It's the ice you've chosen to stand upon.   Please read the Conduct Code--and abide by it.  

i think we are about to see something funny

Quoted: Were any people charged with illegal alcohol production/consumption/etc. after prohibition was repealed?

I did a bit more research - not to satisfy your question but, out of my own curiosity.  There were several thousand cases brought before Grand Juries.  All but 2 were thrown out.  The 2 that were indicted were placed on the court's docket due to the charged parties having sold homemade alcohol that was poisonous and resulted in a harmful outcome.

After reading through many pages of Prohibition history and learning that it was a highly disregarded law, I think offering that as an example was a poor choice.  Upon enactment of the 18th Amendment, it was not uncommon for area's places of alcohol consumption to double or triple in number.

One document that I read from a Virginia student's thesis stated that Detroit's "bars" grew from approximately 1,600 before the 18th Amendment to over 15,000 after the law was enacted.

More people started consuming alcohol and the age for consumption dropped dramatically.  Prior to its enactment the average age of a first time drinker was 23.  Shortly after the enactment of the 18th it dropped to 20 years of age.  But that should not take focus away from the fact that you more and more children ages as low as 10 starting to drink.

Prohibition was a greatly flawed amendment.  That also allowed it to be quickly repealed.

So, to answer whether or not there were indictments after the repeal of the Prohibition the answer is yes.  However, with the acts of selling poisonous alcohol, the 2 cases would've been presented to the Grand Juries whether or not the Prohibition was in affect.  The authorities would merely have to charge them with a different violation.

As for a source...do a google search and prepare to read.   As for some case law history, I saved the last address I visited: Review_of_Repeal

You might find something in there - you might not.  It was all very interesting to me.