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Ponyboy Murder Case Study

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Murder, is the unlawful killing of one human being by another. In a court case, Johnny would be found innocent because he was using self-defense and about Johnny's previous trauma. Johnny is a Greaser and Bob is a Socs. Bob started to say rude things “You guys know what Greasers are? White trash with long, greasy hair”. This started to escalate into a fight. Bob started to drown Ponyboy and Johnny stabbed Bob from behind. In court, Johnny would be found innocent because he was using self-defense to protect Ponyboy and himself.

The first reason why Johnny is innocent was that he was doing self-defense to protect himself and Pony. “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade….. They were gonna beat me up ....¨ (Hilton, 57) This shows that he's innocent because Johnny only killed Bob in order to save Ponyboy. The Socs also had a knife that they were willing to use on both of them. The law in Oklahoma for self-defense when being drawn by a knife is that the individual must prove that they were threatened and had no other option but to use their pocket knife for …show more content…

He looked up and across the field with a stricken expression on his face. “I think we all heard the low moan and saw the dark motionless hump on the other side of the lot at the same time. Soda reached him first. Johnny was lying face down on the ground. Soda turned him over gently, and I nearly got sick.” This supports why Johnny is innocent because the Socs beat up Johnny very badly in the past to the point where it traumatized him so badly that he brought a pocket knife with him. Johnny also was treated very poorly in his family. The book describes Johnny as a “lost puppy”. His family physically and verbally abused Johnny and his parents don't show any emotion or affection towards him. Johnny would be innocent because of his trauma from his family and the Socs beating him up so

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