Teresa Watson, a Rome-based independent Web site owner, has filed an application for a criminal warrant against Summerville attorney Bobby Lee Cook.

Click here to view a copy of the 'Teresa Watson complaint.'

Watson claims Cook called her derogatory names in front of witnesses.

The issue is scheduled to be heard Jan. 3 in Chattooga County Magistrate Court.

One name appears in a transcript from Dec. 14 when Cook attempted to depose Watson. The other name does not appear in the transcript.

The two have been at odds for weeks about a deposition Cook

seeks from Watson. Cook believes that postings to Watson’s Web site are relevant to a lawsuit in which he represents plaintiff Janice Galloway, who is suing Lyerly Mayor Chuck Jones.

Watson has maintained the postings are irrelevant and

claimed First Amendment-type protections from responding to a deposition. On Dec. 14, she walked out of the attempted deposition in Cook’s office. On Dec. 21, Watson was ordered by a Chattooga County Superior Court judge to answer Cook’s questions, and a date of Jan. 11 was set for another deposition.

Cook said Thursday that the Georgia criminal code Watson cites in her application was declared unconstitutional in

1982. He described Watson as “nutty as anybody I’ve ever seen.”

Rome attorney David Guldenschuh, who is representing Watson in the deposition issue, declined to comment “based on my client relationship with Ms. Watson.”