Black letter? Both elements?
****ing hilarious. :lamo
While you are wrong as usual, you are again showing you have no clue as to what you speak.
And what is really sad is you posted the law (without quoting it), and even had it explained to you, yet you still do not get it.
So you clearly need it explained to you again
This time it will be more in depth.
The body of the following is what you provided in post #1220 without actually properly quoting or linking to it. You didn't even distinguish it from your own (maniacal laughter).
17-4-60. Grounds for arrest
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.
Do you see that period preceding the "If" in there? Those two separate and distinguish between the two different standards for a citizens arrest.
1.
"A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge."
That is the minimum standard of arrest by a citizen. In the presence of or within the person's immediate knowledge. That covers both felonies and misdemeanors. And as the provided case law shows, being aware of the crime satisfies the requirement.
2.
"If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion."
This establishes the lower standard of reasonable suspicion for arrest if the crime is a felony and the person is or is attempting to flee.
This standard has not a damn thing to do with the first and is separate and distinct from it.
The first - (immediate knowledge of a crime) does not require any fleeing or attempt to flee to make the arrest. It requires knowledge of an actual crime, regardless if it is a misdemeanor or felony.
The second is a lower standard put in place in regards to a felony only. If a person has "reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion" that another committed a felony and that other person was fleeing or attempting to flee, you could then arrest them. Which is totally different from the first standard.
If you are still have a problem understanding the difference between the two standards, then you seriously need to have whatever it is you are using to think checked out.
Wrong as usual you are.