Some people are insane, crazy, some might call them psychotic. Johnny Cade is the least psychotic person known in the book, The Outsiders. Johnny is a character from The Outsiders, this is a book based around a 1960’s gang war. There are 2 gangs and Johnny was a member of the Greasers gang. He murdered a member of the opposing gang they called the socs in defense of his friend Ponyboy and himself. Johnny Cade is Innocent and here is why. Johnny is innocent because he was acting in self-defense and in defense of Ponyboy. The Socs were going to drown Ponyboy and Johnny did the only thing he could have done. Johnny was being held up and Ponyboy was being drowned so Johnny was sick of being a coward so he did what would save Ponyboy. This supports