
    United States v. George Milburn.
    Upon the trial of an indictment for offering a bribe to a ■witness, the previous declarations of the defendant of his motives for offering it, cannot be given in evidence by the defendant.
    
      Mr. Taylor, for the defendant,
    offered evidence that Milburn, before the offer of the bribe, said he intended to offer it, to show how easily the witnesses might be bribed, so as to discredit them, not intending to pay the bribe.
   But the Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

rejected the evidence.  