Joseph Frederick Robards v. John Rees, Superintendent, Kentucky State Reformatory and David L. Armstrong, Attorney General

JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court which denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus of the Petitioner-Appellant, Joseph Frederick Robards (Ro-bards), under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, this Court affirms the order of the District Court.

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Robards was indicted by a state grand jury on several counts which included robbery, possession of a handgun, and being a persistent felony offender. On the day of trial and after the clerk had called the roll of jurors, Robards requested an adjournment of the trial because his…