Education
University of Texas at Austin.
University of Texas at Austin.
He was one of several Texas politicians indicted in the Sharpstown bank stock fraud scandal. He was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe. Mutscher, however, was later cleared on appeal.
Mutscher was born in the community of William Penn in Washington County.
He attended the William Penn Common School and graduated from Brenham High School in Brenham. Mutscher then enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, from which he procured a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1956 and a reserve commission in the United States Army.
After his legislative service, Mutscher was first appointed and then elected as the administrative county judge of his native Washington County. He resides in the county seat of Brenham.