What Does it Mean to Call Someone a Jackboy?

Maybe this is another local term, like pounding sand or the Devil beating his wife, but I was reading about a young Jacksonville man killed by another when a commenter called one of the two a jackboy. I don't really remember now which (victim or perp), but I'm also not sure it matters. Here's the definition of a jackboy that I found: 

a boy (as a stableboy) who does menial work

I think both of the youn men in the article had been in trouble with the law. Or at least they both could have been in trouble, being young and in the wrong neighborhood. But to call them jackboys seemed like a localism I'd never heard elsewhere. Granted, parts of Jacksonville do have horse stables, but I assume when one uses the term for someone involved in a crime, it has nothing to do with the horse-stabling class.

I'm going to assume the term jackboy is akin to low-life or working-class-grunt. I didn't find any evidence it's a racist term, but I suppose it's ageist and classist. Maybe like a deckhand or hired-man on a farm, but I'm still not positive how it applies to a crime scenario.

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