A Sandy man will serve jail time for strangling and beating two dogs, killing one of them.

William McKnight, 29, was sentenced Monday in 3rd District Court to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine for two misdemeanor counts of aggravated cruelty to an animal.

In November, McKnight pleaded guilty to abusing two dogs belonging to a woman who had placed the dogs, Jazzy and Emily, in his care.

According to the charges, McKnight told a separate witness "that he had tortured (the woman's) dogs by grabbing their necks and throwing them against the walls and floor. He said that one of them died before he got it to the emergency room for treatment.

"He said he did not know why he tortured the animals in this manner, but that in spite of blacking out, he knew what he had done to the dogs."