Section 9-3-37 - Issues of fact may be tried

The supreme court may try and determine all issues of fact which may arise out of any appeal before it and be necessary to the disposition thereof, and, to this end, may, by order in each case, prescribe in what way evidence may be produced before it on the issue.Codes, 1880, § 1412; 1892, § 4350; 1906, § 4916; Hemingway's 1917, § 3192; 1930, § 3376; 1942, § 1960.