Regent v

State, 306 Ga. App. 616, 703 S.E.2d 81 (2010). Trial court was authorized under O.C.G.A. § 17-14-9 to order the defendant to pay the victim’s medical expenses as restitution for damages caused by the defendant’s simple battery of the victim in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-5-23(a) because the court’s finding that the victim was injured by and had incurred costs as a result of the defendant’s criminal behavior toward the victim was not clearly erroneous; the order for restitution did not exceed the amount of costs the victim incurred. Elsasser v. State, 313 Ga. App. 661, 722 S.E.2d 327 (2011), cert. denied, No. S12C0949, 2012 Ga. LEXIS 555 (Ga. 2012). Trial court’s award of restitution to the homeowners was supported by a preponderance of the evidence because the homeowners essentially suffered the entire loss of use of the homeowners’ home, and the trial court determined that these damages flowed from the defendant’s false statement which allowed the defendant, a contractor, to skip the requirements for structural engineering and architectural reports on the contractor’s renovation of the owners’ residence and to avoid county inspections, which would have avoided or detected problems as the problems arose. Wilson v. State, 317 Ga. App. 171, 730 S.E.2d 500 (2012). Trial court’s order regarding restitution was not erroneous as the trial court considered all the factors laid out in O.C.G.A. § 17-14-10(a) and based the court’s restitution award on competent evidence proving the amount granted by a preponder- 1391 ance of the evidence. Graf v. State, 327 Ga. App. 598, 760 S.E.2d 613 (2014). Restitution is limited by thefts during time period alleged in accusation. — Trial court erred in ordering restitution for $260,637 for thefts from the defendant’s employer over a 12-year period because the accusation covered only a two-year period during which $57,000 was taken; under O.C.G.A. §§ 17-14-2(2) and 17-14-10, restitution was limited to damages which the victim could recover in a civil action based on the same act. Vaughn v. State, 324 Ga. App. 289, 750 S.E.2d 375 (2013), overruled on other grounds by In the Interest of N. T., 2020 Ga. App. LEXIS 289 (Ga. Ct. App. 2020). 17-14-11 Cited in Jarrett v. State, 161 Ga. App. 285, 287 S.E.2d 746 (1982); Gould v. State, 190 Ga. App. 611, 381 S.E.2d 442 (1989); Barrett v. State, 192 Ga. App. 705, 385 S.E.2d 785 (1989); Queen v. State, 210 Ga. App. 588, 436 S.E.2d 714 (1993); Howard v. State, 213 Ga. App. 542, 445 S.E.2d 532 (1994); Gaskin v. State, 221 Ga. App. 142, 470 S.E.2d 531 (1996); Anderson v. State, 226 Ga. App. 286, 486 S.E.2d 410 (1997); Hartsell v. State, 288 Ga. App. 552, 654 S.E.2d 662 (2007); Patterson v. State, 289 Ga. App. 663, 658 S.E.2d 210 (2008); Patterson v. State, 289 Ga. App. 663, 658 S.E.2d 210 (2008).